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Hello, tastytea. |
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On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 22:50:30 +0200, tastytea wrote: |
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> On 2021-09-19 20:24+0000 Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > […] |
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> > > Or maybe I'll try and find pm-suspend again on the web. Maybe it |
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> > > had some feature (or bug workaround) which the more modern packages |
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> > > are lacking. |
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> > That's just what I did. A web search for pm-utils found it easily |
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> > enough. pm-suspend works again, and I'm a happy chappy - almost. Why |
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> > was pm-utils taken off of portage in the first place? Was there some |
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> > sort of security problem, or was it just because it hadn't been |
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> > updated in a fair while (since 2013, I think)? |
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> It was removed because upstream abandoned it. It was announced in |
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> <https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2020-04-14-elogind-default.html> |
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> which references <https://bugs.gentoo.org/659616>. |
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It was indeed. I think I missed it because "pm-utils" didn't ring any |
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alarm bells whereas "pm-suspend" would have done. |
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> > That's another feature missing from portage - a systematic way of |
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> > discovering why a package has been removed. |
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> `eselect news read all | less` is sometimes helpful. 😄 |
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Thanks! |
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> -- |
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> Get my PGP key with `gpg --locate-keys tastytea@××××××××.de` or at |
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> <https://tastytea.de/tastytea.asc>. |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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