Bug#362253: Neither discover1, laptop-detect, mdetect nor xresprobe are needed
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 04:43:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Well, I do. Depends is also used for package configuration. If the
> package can't configure itself without those packages, Depends is
> appropriate.
The problem with discover, IMHO, is that once it gets installed, it's not
going to be just called upon as part of producing a working X
configuration. It's going to screw things up every time the machine
reboots, since it has an init script.
Or it used to. CD-ROMs that come and go randomly, interfaces that get
renamed for no apparent reason, etc.
OTOT, I have to admit that none of Debian's auto-detection tools save for
hotplug (and now udev) have been allowed on any box I control in a very
long time, so perhaps that's changed. Certainly udev has the same or
similar set of problems.
If it were a dependency of a meta-package, at least you could remove it and
only lose the meta-package. But xserver-xorg *depends* on it now, rather
than just recommending it, so you're stuck with it.
Can't this be fixed?
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