On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 04:01:23PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> [2009.12.01.1005 +0100]: > > Have you considered whether this package should instead be > > consolidated with pm-utils, the standard component in the > > freedesktop.org stack for handling this functionality? > Power management has IMHO nothing to do with desktops, Yes, which is why the stack has a sensible division into layers, with no desktop baggage in the pm-utils package. (It doesn't even use libglib! ;) > and the freedesktop group has previously made technical decisions with > which I did not agree, hence I've never looked. I think that's unwise given that fd.o is the focal point for most of the Linux plumbing design and development currently taking place, as it's bound to result in lots of gratuitous NIH. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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