From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net>
To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] ACPI Not Compiled into Kernel, Getting Rid of APM
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:45:35 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603262345.41885.bss03@volumehost.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e5a3e9ac0603261329g2ef4c968j373b8c4dd40215b6@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sunday 26 March 2006 15:29, "Lord Sauron" <lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com>
wrote about '[gentoo-laptop] ACPI Not Compiled into Kernel, Getting Rid of
APM':
> 1) ACPID is installed. Lemme double-check... yeah, it is. However.
> whenever I'm looking through /etc, I see all kinds of APMD stuff,
> which isn't installed. Lemme check that too... yeah, it's not
> installed.
/etc is config-protected by default in gentoo, which means (among other
things) uninstalling will not remove files in there. You should be able
to remove these files manually if you aren't using them.
> Anyways, it looks to me like APMD is still effectively installed on
> the system, even though portage says it's not. Is this okay? Nothing
> should start melting or exploding if I just leave it there?
Probably.
--
"If there's one thing we've established over the years,
it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest
clue what's best for them in terms of package stability."
-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh
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2006-03-26 21:29 [gentoo-laptop] ACPI Not Compiled into Kernel, Getting Rid of APM Lord Sauron
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