On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 06:33:53AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > PCMCIA is so uncommon nowadays that installing pcmciautils on every laptop > by default is imho no longer warranted. I would thus like to see it removed > from task-laptop, similar to apmd. > PCMCIA has been a technology which was relevant in the 1990s and has > been superseded by e.g. ExpressCard for over 10 years. > > I've CCed Colin, the pcmciautils maintainer, for his input.
pcmciautils is a slightly misleading name, as it does some CardBus handling as well. However, it's true that udev improvements mean that it's no longer actually needed to get anything other than 16-bit PCMCIA cards up and running; so I think this proposed tasksel change is OK. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130114101707.ga5...@riva.dynamic.greenend.org.uk
