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On Wednesday 04 Jun 2014 23:27:05 Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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> On 05/06/14 01:14, »Q« wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:06:07 +0200 |
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> > |
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> > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> The good news is that the version of upower prior to this decision |
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> >> still works fine and likely will for ages to come. That code has been |
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> >> bundled into a new package upower-pm-utils. |
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> >> |
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> >> Anyone that feels like doing it can now step up to the plate and |
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> >> continue the work upower was doing earlier. |
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> > I don't understand the development status of upower-pm-utils. Is there |
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> > someone either upstream or with Gentoo committed to maintaining it? |
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> No, nobody is actively working on it, it's the abandoned upstream git |
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> branch that used to be master before 0.99.0's release: |
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> |
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> Current sys-power/upower-pm-utils is same as latest code from |
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> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/upower/log/?h=0.9 |
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> And last commit is 2013 |
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> I might backport some fixes from git master over at some point later, |
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> but I won't do any promises |
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> > Or |
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> > is it a git branch created just to meet the current needs of |
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> > non-systemd Gentoo users? |
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> It's to be considered as a temporary solution for applications that need |
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> the Hibernate and Suspend functionality |
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> from UPower for non-systemd users, applications like |
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> mate-session-manager, lxsession, uevt, and so forth |
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> Migrating to >=sys-power/upower-0.99.0 is the recommended path to take |
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> if at all possible. It's possible for eg. |
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> Xfce users, because Xfce in ~arch integrated sys-power/pm-utils support |
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> directly for Hibernate and Suspend |
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> Also, GNOME 3.12 requires 0.99.0 |
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Hi Samuli, |
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Are you saying that as things stand it is a matter of time before a gentoo |
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user will have to switch from openrc to systemd, if they want/need to continue |
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using sleep and hibernate? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |