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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:23 AM, James Rayner <iphitus at iphitus.org> wrote:
> 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.

LOL, did they even make P2 laptops? I imagine they'd be huge and heavy
by today's standards