Subject: Bug#379475: [Etch] Should sysfsutils be added to the base system?
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general
Date: 2006-07-24 23:42:28 GMT (3 years, 28 weeks, 4 days, 11 hours and 41 minutes ago)
On Jul 23, Frans Pop <elendil <at> planet.nl> wrote: > As 2.6 will be the default kernel for Etch and /sys is playing an > increasingly important role in system configuration, I was wondering if > it does not make sense to add sysfsutils to base and thus install it by > default on new systems. Which packages actually use it, and why? What can it do that "echo $VALUE > /sys$DEVPATH/attribute" and similar commands cannot do? What is the point of having an abstraction layer for a published and already widely used API? I object to adding 160 KB to base unless it will be better explained why we need this. -- ciao, Marco