Bug 503466 – >=sys-power/upower-0.9.21: make pm-utils an optional dependency

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description hal 2014-03-04 23:50:42 UTC]

Since upstream deprecated pm-utils as a hard dependency since upower-0.9.20 couldn't we make it an option by introducing the pm-utils useflag to the upower ebuild?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -av upower


Actual Results:  
pulls in pm-utils

Expected Results:  
pm-utils should be optional

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2014-03-05 07:54:52 UTC]

no, it shouldn't be optional on non-systemd systems, upower uses either pm-utils or systemd, and we have a USE flag 'systemd' to control this already
the commit message might be a bit vague, don't let it confuse you

[Comment 2 hal 2014-03-05 20:07:35 UTC]

An exclusive usage of USE=systemd might be confusing.
If I wanted to use upower without pm-utils on a openrc based system it's not intuitive and/or clear why I would have to set USE=systemd in that case.

The point is that there are situations where users have to use upower but do not want or simply can not use pm-utils. Thus they don't need or want pm-utils to be installed on their systems at all.

Into my mind come examples where people would like to use upower without pm-utils:
- Booting from a ssd is so fast that it's not profitable to suspend at all
- Resigned to use suspend because of quirky hardware

Both cases apply to two of my machines. :)
Nevertheless those usecases might require upower for other purposes like shutdown and reboot actions.

[Comment 3 hal 2014-03-06 16:56:57 UTC]

Created attachment 371888 [details, diff]
USE=pm-utils patch

- Introduces pm-utils IUSE
- "--disable-deprecated" is set as a default
- "--enable-deprecated" is only set if USE=pm-utils is set
- Introduced softblockers for systemd and pm-utils

[Comment 4 hal 2014-03-06 16:57:56 UTC]

Created attachment 371890 [details]
upower-0.9.23.ebuild

Corresponding ebuild for the patch to make reviewing easier