Joey Hess: > I'm hesitant about calling acpi support itself a task. It doesn't full > in the blank well in a sentence like "I wanna use a ___.". I'd also > prefer to avoid completly hidden tasks, if there's not some visible task > (like desktop that triggers them, since I think that could lead to some > overly-DWIM behavior.
OK. So it would be okay to have desktop-triggered hidden hardware detection tasks? > Of course it's a subset of laptop support, which I do think would work > as a task; the task could try to detect a laptop, and default the task > to install if found; the task would always be visible in the menu. Well, not all laptops support ACPI, and it is useful on desktops too. If you have acpid installed on a desktop PC with ACPI, you can press the power button to make it shut down nicely. A laptop task would of course also be useful. We could probably use Ubuntu's laptop detection code. > Given that all we need for acpi support is so simple, it might be better > to hardcode this elsewhere in the installer. Like, apt-install'ing acpi and acpid in hw-detect if ACPI is available? -- Pelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
