Re: [gentoo-amd64] why unmerge acpid ?

["Olivier Crête" <tester@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 2007-11-09 at 23:33 +0300, Thanasis wrote:
> on 09/11/2007 11:14 PM Thanasis wrote the following:
> > uname -r
> > 2.6.22-gentoo-r5
> >
> > I have acpi in my USE flags and compiled support in kernel:
> >
> > grep -i acpi .config |grep -v ^\#
> > CONFIG_ACPI=y
> > CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
> > CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y
> > CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y
> > CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=m
> > CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m
> > CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=m
> > CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=m
> > CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=m
> > CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0
> > CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
> > CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y
> > CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y
> > CONFIG_PNPACPI=y
> > CONFIG_ATA_ACPI=y
> >
> > *BUT* , isn't acpid needed by some apps like gnome battery charge monitor?
> > Why does "emerge --update" suddenly want to remove sys-power/acpid?
> > Is there something else we are supposed to use, instead of sys-power/acpid?
> >
> > Thanasis
> Actually I should be posting this to the *gentoo-user* list as this
> system is a i686 Pentium III, but the same thing happens for a AMD64
> machine too!
> 
> Thanasis
> PS: Also, it's late here and I'm tired. Sorry  :-[ 

Last I checked, gnome-power-manager did not use acpid anymore

-- 
Olivier Crête
tester@gentoo.org
Gentoo Developer

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