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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: sys-power/upower-pm-utils
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 09:30:31
Message-Id: 29206004.vciFhlLf0z@andromeda
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] re: sys-power/upower-pm-utils by Alexander Kapshuk
1 On Tuesday, June 03, 2014 11:59:07 AM Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
2 > Howdy,
3 >
4 > Just wanted to make sure I read the change logs shown below correctly.
5 > So far, I've been using sys-power/upower. Attempting to update
6 > sys-power/upower seems to require sys-apps/systemd to be pulled in as a
7 > dependency, which I don't want to do.
8 >
9 > If I understand the change log below correctly, I should uninstall
10 > sys-power/upower and install sys-power/upower-pm-utils instead. Is that
11 > right? Thanks.
12 >
13 > equery c sys-power/upower-pm-utils
14 > *upower-pm-utils-0.9.23 (26 May 2014)
15 >
16 > 26 May 2014; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
17 > +upower-pm-utils-0.9.23.ebuild,
18 > +files/upower-pm-utils-0.9.23-clamp_percentage_for_overfull_batt.patch,
19 > +files/upower-pm-utils-0.9.23-create-dir-runtime.patch,
20 > +files/upower-pm-utils-0.9.23-fix-segfault.patch:
21 > Initial commit of upower 0.9 git branch for use with sys-power/pm-utils
22 > because upower master git branch removed support for it.
23 > Right now this is a copy of =sys-power/upower-0.9.23-r2 without
24 > USE="systemd" because sys-apps/systemd users will be moving to
25 >
26 > >=sys-power/upower-0.99.
27 >
28 > equery c sys-power/upower|sed -n '1,/instead/p'
29 > *upower-0.9.23-r3 (02 Jun 2014)
30 >
31 > 02 Jun 2014; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
32 > +upower-0.9.23-r3.ebuild:
33 > Leave 0.9.23-r3 with --disable-deprecated for sys-apps/systemd users.
34 > Users who want UPower with sys-power/pm-utils support will want to emerge
35 >
36 > >=sys-power/upower-pm-utils-0.9.23 instead.
37
38
39 Sounds like Samuli is being a pr*ck by forcing systemd on everyone now.
40 A proper solution would have been to have the upower ebuild select systemd as
41 a dependency ONLY when the systemd useflag is set.
42 And depend on upower-pm-utils when it is not set.
43
44 --
45 Joost

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] re: sys-power/upower-pm-utils Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-user] re: sys-power/upower-pm-utils Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-user] re: sys-power/upower-pm-utils Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
[gentoo-user] Re: sys-power/upower-pm-utils "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>