On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 11:26:20AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > I am saying that it has no special importance for laptops. If we go down the > track of dragging everything that is needed for a laptop then we'll soon have > things like bash included which IMHO is not the aim. The aim is to list all > things that are laptop specific or that have a special need in laptops.
I totally understand that fear, I've had the same thoughts.
> You install hdparm if you want to tune your hard drive(s) for maximum
> performance. It doesn't matter if you have a desktop or a laptop. If you
> choose not to install hdparm on your desktop then you probably shouldn't be
> forced to install it on your laptop.
The reason I suggested it is that I don't use hdparm for tuning my hard-drive
for performance, only for setting it to shut down after 30 seconds of
inactivity, like my previous Win95 settings. So I've always thought of it as
a power management tool, along with apmd. Would having the laptop-metapackage
just suggest or recommend (can't remember which is lower) hdparm, but not
depend on it be a better solution I wonder?
MBG
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