FS#29523 - [gnome-applets] blocks cpupower package
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Opened by Ivan Lyapunov (dront78) - Wednesday, 18 April 2012, 11:29 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Sunday, 19 August 2012, 04:24 GMT
Opened by Ivan Lyapunov (dront78) - Wednesday, 18 April 2012, 11:29 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Sunday, 19 August 2012, 04:24 GMT
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Description:
Unable to install cpupower beacuse it conflicts with cpufrequtils package installed due to gnome-applets 3.2.1 Additional info: * package version(s) * config and/or log files etc. Steps to reproduce: pacman -S gnome-applets pacman -S cpupower |
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Closed by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Sunday, 19 August 2012, 04:24 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: gnome-applets 3.4.1-2
Sunday, 19 August 2012, 04:24 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: gnome-applets 3.4.1-2
Gnome seems not to maintain gnome-applets. But it is still a dependecy of the Gnome in fallback-mode. I suggest to remove cpufrequtils from the dependencies of gnome-applets and make it an optional dependency.
Rationale:
Only a small minority of users can access the applets, because only available in fallback-mode available. If someone uses the fallback-mode* and also want to use the cpu-applet it is still possible to install old cpufrequtils manually. All others would be better served with cpupower.
*Presumably I'm afraid power-management of the CPU won't help much in this cases. Because a missing or low-quality graphics driver will mess up entire power-management anyway.
Fixed in stable! pacman will not remove or replace cpufrequtils by itself, if you want to this:
1. pacman -Syu
2. pacman -Qdt
3. if cpufrequtils is listed
pacman -Rns cpufrequtils
4. pacman -S cpupower (use it, e.g. "cpupower -c all frequency-info" or "cpupower frequency-set -g [performance, ondemand, powersave...]")