Hi Martin, > don't kill me, instead split acpi-support into acpi-support-ibm, > acpi-support-toshiba, … please? :)
Sorry, I think I have to refuse this one (without killing you ;-) ). There are various reasons for not wanting this:
* The acpi-support package is intended to contain a library that associates laptop models and the required package behaviours. Many of the behaviours are not as clear-cut as "toshiba" vs. "ibm" versus "dell" versus "asus".
* apt cannot detect the specific laptop model, this detection is left to acpi-support. Therefore, acpi-support *must* be able to support all laptops out-of-the-box, *or* it must detect the laptops and install the additional packages automatically. But this would again require knowledge about the existing laptop models in the core package, which would defeat the entire purpose of splitting the package up!
* The split would yield a lot of *very* small packages, consisting only of a couple of settings and a tiny number of config files. This is probably overkill.
All in all, I think these are enough reasons to not want this. If you come up with a compelling case you can still change my mind of course, but for now I'm considering this a "wontfix".
Cheers, Bart
