>> 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.
I was wrong though. >> 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 I didn't realise that it had this capability. It should be made part of the standard dependencies then. Russell Coker
