Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 05:40:03PM -0700, James Blanford wrote:
> They bloat the system, clog the harddrive, complicate
> package management, require continual maintenance, open security holes
> and worst of all, slow the boot process significantly.
I think this is the sentence where I stopped paying attention, to be
honest.
> I don't think they even meet the requirement of Recommends or Suggests
> as all these relationships are defined in terms of utility not
> convenience of configuration. But I won't quibble, if you'll please not
> make them Depends.
You are seriously suggesting that they should be removed as they serve
no purpose, and no-one cares about configuration?
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