Comment 17 for bug 267141

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Chow Loong Jin (hyperair) wrote : Re: [Bug 267141] Re: suspend button disappears after pm-utils upgraded to 1.1.2.4-1ubuntu2

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James Westby wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 14:18 +0000, hyperair wrote:
>> I'm personally against dropping the patch, for the following reasons:
>> 1. This won't stop people who want to use uswsusp from using uswsusp.
>
> That's intentional, if people want to use uswsusp they can.
>
Then don't disable s2ram.
>> 2. If the user has installed uswsusp, then, since it's in universe, it
> should mean that the user has explicitly chosen to use it
>
> That's not true. I have it installed and I didn't choose to. pm-utils'
> presence in the default install and the moving of uswsusp to Suggests
> should prevent this happening though.
>
Yes, that's the reason why I agree with shifting it to Suggests.
>> 3. Dropping the patch would make people who need/want to use uswsusp
> to rebuild pm-utils with the patch
>
> I believe this is incorrect, adding a file to /etc/pm/config.d/ will
> allow them to use it.
What file would this be? Also, it's a rather hackish method of getting something to work,
considering most of Ubuntu's stuff is configured and enabled upon installation. This deviates from
normal behaviour.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>

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Hyperair
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