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From: Greg Hasseler <ghassel1@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating sys-power/speedfreq
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:09:32
Message-Id: 200504251609.38989.ghassel1@twcny.rr.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating sys-power/speedfreq by Henrik Brix Andersen
1 On Monday 25 April 2005 03:55 pm, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > The sys-power/speedfreq package has not seen an upstream release in more
5 > than a year, and it is superseded in every way by sys-power/cpufreqd
6 > (which, in turn, is actively maintained by upstream).
7 >
8 > There are currently 5 open bugs about sys-power/speedfreq in Gentoo
9 > bugzilla - most of them indicating that it needs rather large changes to
10 > be useful.
11 >
12 > If no one objects (and claims the package + fixes the open bugs) I will
13 > add sys-power/speedfreq to package.mask in a week from now.
14 >
15 > Sincerely,
16 > Brix
17
18 Once sys-power/speedfreq is masked (well, if it gets masked), the power
19 management guide at
20 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml#doc_chap3 should
21 probably be updated to remove sys-power/speedfreq from the text, or at a
22 minimum from the recommended daemon.
23
24 -----------------------
25 Greg
26 ghassel1@××××××××.com
27 ghasseler@×××××.com
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating sys-power/speedfreq Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating sys-power/speedfreq Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o>