Re: [RFC] laptop-detect being installed just on useful architectures

Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:

> On Friday 08 February 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> > 1) You did not answer my question whether laptop-detect really supports
>> >    sparc. If it does not, we should not install it there (and
>> > laptop-detect should not be built for sparc).
>>
>> It does, if kernel does.
>>
>> Currently laptop-detect checks dmi and if there're batteries[1] on the
>> system, in those cases, it guess it's a laptop.
>
> I still have some doubts whether it really makes sense to install it. I
> expect 99.999% of sparc systems that get Debian installed will be either
> workstations or, even much more likely, servers.
> Have you ever actually _seen_ someone with a sparc laptop?

I didn't. I have no strong opinion about keep it or not. I'm ok to drop it by now.

<...>
>> > 3) The laptop test in tasksel should be modified to _first_ test
>> > whether laptop-detect exists or not. As it is now it will barf errors.
>>
>> I found it in two places and changed both them.
>
> 1) The test checks whether laptop-detect is executable twice as which
> itself already does that.

Right.

> 2) The test will still produce output.

Right. I've also fixed dmidecode test too to avoid same problems there.

New patches again.

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