On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Bart Samwel wrote: > >Well, it would allow me to use acpi-support and actually make sense > >of /etc/acpid/* by removing all the stuff that I will never need. > >This is Debian, after all... > > I'd rather improve the organization of the package (which it definitely > needs) than splitting it up. You see, it's not a large package, it's > just a bit disorganized. And that's the fault of upstream (which is > Ubuntu).
You must keep in mind that acpi-support is something that's supposed to not exist. It's only filling gaps so that it actually work with the deficiencies of the drivers and the hardware. In the long term, the goal is to reduce the number of different cases and certainly shrink the size of the package. Maybe move some functionalities in other parts of the system (gnome-power-manager, acpid, etc). So I think that reorganizing this package is mainly lost work unless you manage to become upstream together with Ubuntu. Matthew Garrett is not interested in that but you might want to ask Paul Sladen who made the 4 or 5 last Ubuntu uploads. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
