On Wednesday 04 Jun 2014 23:27:05 Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 05/06/14 01:14, »Q« wrote: > > On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:06:07 +0200 > > > > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The good news is that the version of upower prior to this decision > >> still works fine and likely will for ages to come. That code has been > >> bundled into a new package upower-pm-utils. > >> > >> Anyone that feels like doing it can now step up to the plate and > >> continue the work upower was doing earlier. > > > > I don't understand the development status of upower-pm-utils. Is there > > someone either upstream or with Gentoo committed to maintaining it? > > No, nobody is actively working on it, it's the abandoned upstream git > branch that used to be master before 0.99.0's release: > > Current sys-power/upower-pm-utils is same as latest code from > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/upower/log/?h=0.9 > And last commit is 2013 > > I might backport some fixes from git master over at some point later, > but I won't do any promises > > > Or > > is it a git branch created just to meet the current needs of > > non-systemd Gentoo users? > > It's to be considered as a temporary solution for applications that need > the Hibernate and Suspend functionality > from UPower for non-systemd users, applications like > mate-session-manager, lxsession, uevt, and so forth > > Migrating to >=sys-power/upower-0.99.0 is the recommended path to take > if at all possible. It's possible for eg. > Xfce users, because Xfce in ~arch integrated sys-power/pm-utils support > directly for Hibernate and Suspend > Also, GNOME 3.12 requires 0.99.0
Hi Samuli, Are you saying that as things stand it is a matter of time before a gentoo user will have to switch from openrc to systemd, if they want/need to continue using sleep and hibernate? -- Regards, Mick
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