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

From: Frans Pop <elendil(at)planet.nl>
Date: Fri Feb 08 2008 - 16:03:51 EST


On Friday 08 February 2008, Joey Hess wrote:
> Frans Pop wrote:
> > Have you ever actually _seen_ someone with a sparc laptop?
>
> No. However, I have seen someone with a mips laptop. IIRC they got a
> week's battery life running Debian. There are also plenty of things in
> the laptop to pda spectrum using arm. mips, mipsel, arm, armel, armeb
> should all be included I think.

I have absolutely no problem with that if it's useful and wanted.

tbm: anything to add here?

> debian-cd only currently includes laptop-detect due to it being a
> tasksel dependency. Changes will be needed to avoid it falling off of
> CDs if this dependency is removed.

Yes, I already mentioned that myself in the previous thread that led up to these patches and make sure it is done.

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