Debian is dropping acpi and acpi-support-base from the default install
because they conflict with systemd. They are dropping them even for
those installations that use sysv-init, because even those Debian
installations use the systemd login demon (which seems to take over the
jobs of acpi, for some reason.

Just a warning that we should watch for these things is when we base
our installer on Debian's -- we may have to install default packages
that Debian has dropped.

Not clear if acpi and friends are going to he dropped altogether as
redundant packages.

Here's the debian mailing list item I got this from.

-- hendrik

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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2015 22:53:28 +0200
From: Michael Biebl <biebl@???>
To: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@???>, Marco d'Itri <md@???>
CC: 783247@???
Subject: Bug#783247: Please don't install acpid and acpi-support-base
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Am 25.04.2015 um 22:29 schrieb Bjørn Mork:
> md@??? (Marco d'Itri) writes:
>> On Apr 24, Michael Biebl <biebl@???> wrote:
>>
>>> A while ago, I already filed a bug to have acpid and acpi-support-base
>>> removed from tasksel [1], since it duplicates functionality which is
>>> nowadays provided by systemd/logind.
>> Indeed they are not needed when systemd is used (but are still required
>> on sysvinit systems).
>
> Are you sure about this? It was my first reaction as well, but then I
> remembered the troubles I had with logind conflicting with my acpid
> based setup.
>
> logind duplicates the functionality provided acpid and acpi-support-base
> defaults. And logind seems to be mandatory regardless of init system.
> So I guess acpid and acpi-support-base should be removed from tasksel.

acpid and acpi-support-base have already been removed from tasksel.


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