Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed
On 13 Apr, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 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.
>
That's to be expected. My concerns are _user_ concerns not _developer_
concerns. But, really, laptop-detect??? My three year old knows the
difference between a laptop and a desktop.
I notice you have no response to the Debian policy I quoted. So we've
established two things:
You stop paying attention when user concerns come up.
You aren't interested in Debian policy.
>> 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?
No, if I had wanted to suggest that, I would have come out and said it.
As it turns out, xserver-xorg and all the packages I listed are
unnecessary. Close the bug. For all I care you can make it depend on a
functioning webcam, so gamma can be adjusted for my interior lighting
scheme.
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