2008/1/30, Till Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed January 30 2008, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > > > This is why i, for the SUSE packages, refuse to package up workaround hooks > > and instead pushe them into the package that contains the broken driver or > > the software that can not cope well with suspend. Thus the maintainer of > > those packages clearly know they have a problem and have an incentive to > > push upstream into fixing the bug. If this is not possible (ipw3945 comes > > to mind), then at least users with sane hardware are not punished with ugly > > workarounds that they don't even need). > > But this way for every distro the workaround needs to be created again instead > of sharing the work/knowledge. I do not like this very much. Also I do not > see much punishment in case there is a hook that only returns 1 instead of > not beeing there at all. And also you already showed how easy it is to remove > hooks that you may not need for your distro. >
We could have a separate branch for those hacks (so distribution maintainers can cherry pick if they want). I have to agree with Stefan, that we should keep pm-utils as clean as possible by default and not add every available workaround. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
