| Summary: | sys-apps/mlocate-0.26-r2: add an optional dependency on sys-power/powermgmt-base | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | selurvedu <selurvedu> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system> |
| Status: | UNCONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
``` $ cat /etc/cron.daily/mlocate #! /bin/sh set -e # check if we run on battery and if so then don't run if which on_ac_power >/dev/null 2>&1; then ON_BATTERY=0 on_ac_power >/dev/null 2>&1 || ON_BATTERY=$? if [ "${ON_BATTERY}" -eq 1 ]; then exit 0 fi fi ... ``` My system did not have the on_ac_power script installed, so the above cron script was unable to detect whether the laptop is running on battery (`which` never succeeded, so no checks were performed). I think that the sys-apps/mlocate ebuild should either write a post-install message about an optional dependency to let the user decide whether he needs that kind of check, or there should be a corresponding USE flag.