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On 31/05/14 05:47, Steven J. Long wrote: |
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> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 09:57:01AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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>> On 27/05/14 08:34, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>>> Dnia 2014-05-26, o godz. 23:15:34 |
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>>> Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> napisał(a): |
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>>> |
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>>>> UPower upstream removed sys-power/pm-utils support from 0.99 release |
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>>>> (currently unkeyworded in tree), as in, from current git master. |
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>>> Don't worry. Looking at the past, I can guess this is only a temporary |
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>>> inconvenience. I'm pretty sure upower will be discontinued soon |
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>>> and replaced with systemd-powerd or something :D. |
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>>> |
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>> That's more or less what they already did, they forced eg. |
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>> xfce4-power-manager upstream |
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>> to move the deleted pm-utils code from upower directly to the power |
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>> manager (application) |
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>> itself, likewise for xfce4-session |
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>> Which means applications will now need to duplicate the pm-utils related |
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>> code per application |
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>> basis |
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>> So I expect upower to be more or less dead for everything but systemd |
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>> users, except for |
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>> those upstreams that will actually follow the Xfce path and do the |
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>> duplication |
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>> Yet, still, small portition of the code is still 'generic', so |
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>> xfce4-power-manager will still need |
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>> both, upower, even 0.99, and then pm-utils, depending on the version, |
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>> codepath is selected |
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>> |
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>> This was sort of expected, since pm-utils has been abandoned for ~5 |
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>> years now at upstream, |
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>> so nobody is maintaining non-systemd related power management tools |
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>> anymore, and |
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>> falling back to eg. manual laptop-mode-tools, acpid, etc. usage will be |
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>> necessary again, |
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>> it's like going back to 90s for non-systemd users :P |
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> I can't believe I'm reading that from a distro-developer. Basically this |
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> entire thread is "systemd is deprecating the existing tools, so let's dump |
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> them and half our userbase back to the 90s, isn't that a great thing?" |
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Then you misunderstood. Notice the ":P" as an indicator of sarcasm. |
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I've already created sys-power/upower-pm-utils where the sys-power/pm-utils |
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0.9 git branch will continue to live. |
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