On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Jim Walker<James.Walker at sun.com> wrote: > Terry (Sarito) Whatley wrote: >> >> Is it really necessary to use the "pmtools" name? ?None of the commands >> seem >> to use this name. ?There are many other things that might eventually be >> included in a collection of "pm tools", including some we already have >> (powertop comes to mind), and some that we will want for SPARC as well. >> ?It >> seems a shame to burn the name for such a small specific thing, when it is >> really an ACPI-specific set of commands. ?The only place pmtools shows up >> on >> the referenced url is in the name of the tar file ... > > Some unix distros use pmtools some use acpidump as the package name. > > http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-power/pmtools > http://www.opencsw.org/packages.php/acpidump > http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/acpidump > > ccing Aubrey Li, the upstream maintainer, who Pat was been working with. > > Pat, Aubrey, > > Do you have input in terms of which package name to use? > > Cheers, > Jim >
I prefer acpidump, there are other packages named pmtools, like this one: http://www.opencsw.org/packages/pmtools Thanks, -Aubrey
