On Mon, 2025-09-15 at 09:34 +0100, Michael wrote: > > It's important because I don't want to wear out the monitor's power > > button, > > which tends to be the weakest component of the whole device. > > The 'kde-plasma/plasma-meta' package should install powerdevil as > part of the > plasma desktop, so you don't have to install it individually.
They were probably trying to minimalize the install footprint for KDE, as I once did. I too expected plasma-meta to be the "kitchen sink" meta package for all of the KDE applications, but it is not. It installs a few things I don't use, but I didn't have to bother with the cherry-picking step. Less friction; I have more disk space and compile time than I have patience.
