[arch-dev-public] delete apmd from extra?

[James Rayner]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:35 PM, James Rayner <iphitus at iphitus.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Thayer Williams <thayer at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>> On Oct 16, 2008 at 01:41 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Does anyone even use apm anymore? And if they do, shouldn't we discourage it?
>>>
>>> I'm sure someone in the wild is using it, but yes we should discourage it
>>> =)
>>
>> well if APM is all their hardware supports...
>
> I don't think any hardware made after 2000 supports only APM...
>

I'm just playing devils advocate. My old PII had APM suspend, no ACPI
support. It was a desktop though, so I never needed the suspend
functionality and I doubt there's many PII laptops out there.

So yeah, I'm all for removing it.