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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-power/upower-pm-utils
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:36:03
Message-Id: 20140603093509.52245098@sepulchrave.remarqs
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] re: sys-power/upower-pm-utils by Rich Freeman
1 On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 07:19:00 -0400
2 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:30 AM, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org>
5 > wrote:
6 > > On Tuesday, June 03, 2014 11:59:07 AM Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
7 > >>
8 > >> Just wanted to make sure I read the change logs shown below
9 > >> correctly. So far, I've been using sys-power/upower. Attempting to
10 > >> update sys-power/upower seems to require sys-apps/systemd to be
11 > >> pulled in as a dependency, which I don't want to do.
12 > >>
13 > >> If I understand the change log below correctly, I should uninstall
14 > >> sys-power/upower and install sys-power/upower-pm-utils instead. Is
15 > >> that right? Thanks.
16
17 > "emerge -1 sys-power/upower-pm-utils" should fix this.
18
19 On my system, using -1 would lead to it being cleaned by --depclean
20 eventually. kdelibs has an optional (USE flag-controlled) dependency
21 on upower, but not on upower-pm-utils. But upower-pm-utils does seem
22 to be a drop-in replacement for upower, as far as KDE is concerned.
23
24 > However, this probably should have been a news item before going into
25 > the stable tree...
26
27 That would have been nice.