too many deamons by default - F7 test 2 live cd

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 19 12:42:41 UTC 2007


Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Lun 19 mars 2007 13:29, Rahul Sundaram a écrit :
>> Benny Amorsen wrote:
>>>>>>>> "JB" == Josh Boyer <jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org> writes:
>>> JB> cpuspeed is very useful, especially in the case of a laptop which
>>> JB> several people use as their desktop. Your narrow definition of a
>>> JB> desktop is perhaps too limiting.
>>>
>>> cpuspeed really isn't optional on modern desktop machines either.
>>> Rahul Sundaram may have lots of machines with fixed clockspeeds, but
>>> that is no reason to not support newer stuff.
>> There is simply no need to get personal. If hardware doesn't support it,
>> it needs to be disabled by default. Disagree?
> 
> If a large proportion of hardware supports it, and launching it for the
> rest is relatively harmless, it needs to be enabled by default.

Do we know if a large portion of hardware supports it, useful on those? 
Wouldn't gnome-power-manager be enough on those systems?

> I find it ridiculous to push network manager (which is only really needed
> for wifi users, for hardware we have free drivers for, and tends to mess
> up the system when going bad) and ask to remove cpuspeed.

Where did I ask for cpuspeed to be removed? You are just making things 
up now.

Rahul





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