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.

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