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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: UPower upstream (git master) and 0.99 release -> No sys-power/pm-utils support anymore
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:09:48
Message-Id: CAGfcS_nBs+3M-PmmH0m7C8As72jBN+7xUjsaPkK_=o1DkSdptg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: UPower upstream (git master) and 0.99 release -> No sys-power/pm-utils support anymore by Tom Wijsman
1 On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 09:53:45 -0400
3 > Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> Whatever - short of profiles/mix-ins or whatever you want to do on a
6 >> big scale there isn't a simple solution to problems like this.
7 >
8 > Why is the mix-in not a simple solution?
9
10 It involves a tree-level change. Granted, for something like systemd
11 it probably makes sense. However, there are always going to be
12 dependency resolution situations where the PM won't guess the user's
13 intent. Maybe in these cases the PM should make it more clear that
14 there was an alternative option.
15
16 Rich

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