Re: [gentoo-amd64] why unmerge acpid ?

["Wil Reichert" <wil.reichert@gmail.com>]

On 9/11/07, Olivier Crête <tester@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't acpid more or less been
replaced by hald?

Wil
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