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From: Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: fragfred@×××.de
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating sys-power/speedfreq
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:30:12
Message-Id: 1114471810.2090.1.camel@sponge.fungus
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecating sys-power/speedfreq by Greg Hasseler
1 Hi,
2
3 On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 16:09 -0400, Greg Hasseler wrote:
4 > On Monday 25 April 2005 03:55 pm, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
5 > > Hi,
6 > >
7 > > The sys-power/speedfreq package has not seen an upstream release in more
8 > > than a year, and it is superseded in every way by sys-power/cpufreqd
9 > > (which, in turn, is actively maintained by upstream).
10 > >
11 > > There are currently 5 open bugs about sys-power/speedfreq in Gentoo
12 > > bugzilla - most of them indicating that it needs rather large changes to
13 > > be useful.
14 > >
15 > > If no one objects (and claims the package + fixes the open bugs) I will
16 > > add sys-power/speedfreq to package.mask in a week from now.
17 > >
18 > > Sincerely,
19 > > Brix
20 >
21 > Once sys-power/speedfreq is masked (well, if it gets masked), the power
22 > management guide at
23 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml#doc_chap3 should
24 > probably be updated to remove sys-power/speedfreq from the text, or at a
25 > minimum from the recommended daemon.
26
27 Good catch - I've added Dennis to CC: on this mail :)
28
29 Sincerely,
30 Brix
31 --
32 Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o>
33 Gentoo Linux

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