tag 438665 wontfix
merge 438665 445900
thanks
Clint Adams wrote:
reopen 438665
quit
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Luk Claes wrote:
That sounds like the Dependens should be a Recommends, if so please file
a bug for it.
It doesn't look like #438665 was actually fixed.
<rant>
OK, then I'll tag it wontfix and merge it with _yet another_ reporting
of this same issue (which was also tagged wontfix), instead of closing
it. Discussing this issue (including other versions of it reported about
every month) has been taking up a significant part of the acpi-support
maintainer load for quite some time. Raising the issue _yet again_,
especially in such a high-profile forum such as this, will cause much
higher-priority issues to be stalled _yet again_. I'm afraid I'll be
using my spare time yet again to discuss a tiny amount of disk space
instead of fixing people's laptops that don't work. To reiterate the
arguments made in the various bug reports: the dependencies are
currently _not a bug_, they are a _requirement_, hence the Depends. They
are a necessity for the stated goal of the package: to make all laptops
"just work". The current state of the surrounding infrastructure simply
doesn't allow for a different solution. If somebody can come up with a
bit of infrastructure to fix this up that doesn't have any drawbacks, be
my guest and submit a patch! :-)
</rant>
Sorry if I sound a bit bitter, spend a couple of months in gulag
acpi-support and you'll understand. ;-) I'll add a couple of actual
technical notes, for those who are interested:
1. In response to this bug report, the dependencies on X clients were
reduced significantly to include only the package that contains xset.
This was the part of Depends that was actually superfluous, and it
reduced the depends load significantly. This was the reason the bug
report was closed instead of tagged "wontfix".
2. What we may actually require is a detection system which triggers the
installation of packages at installation time, based on hardware
detection. Something like this was discussed in more detail in #445900.
In the absence of a dependable non-overkill (not larger than the
packages involved, not a much higher maintenance burden) system that
does that, or Recommends which behaves exactly like Depends (like some
package managers treat Recommends, but not all), I'd prefer to stay with
plain Depends to actually get laptops which "just work". Unless somebody
comes up with a patch that guarantees that it doesn't break more than 1%
of the hardware that we support, of course.
3. Regarding the toshset package: I have a working Toshiba Tecra 8200,
one of the models covered by toshset. I may be biased, but as far as I'm
concerned the stuff is still useful. :-)
Cheers,
Bart
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