ksim dell laptop support....

[Ralf Nolden]

On Samstag, 15. November 2003 16:17, Nadeem Hasan wrote:
> Quoting Ralf Nolden <nolden at kde.org>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > kdeutils/ksim/configure.in.in has a check that looks like this:
> >
> > dnl Check for dell laptop support
> > AM_CONDITIONAL(supports_i8k, test -f /proc/i8k)
> >
> > I think that's nice if you're compiling KDE from source and have a dell
> > laptop
> > but for packagers who have to support all options by default this is not
> > the
> >
> > solution you'd want as that means it's always disabled.
> >
> > Any ideas how to make that usable somehow ?
>
> I was the one who wrote that code for Dell i18k drivers. I think you are
> right. That check is useless for packagers. Maybe the packagers should
> bundle all the laptop related stuff in a separate package. The i18k plugin
> can then be included in that package.
Hmm that won't happen I guess. Packagers don't like extra work just for a 
plugin and users don't want to install a separate package if they have a 
certain kind of hardware. Otherwise kernel packages would be split into one 
for each hardware device, no ? :-) At least for Debian we won't split up the 
ksim package even more.

>
> In any case, I think we can remove that configure check. I will take it
> out.

Ok, thanks.

Ralf


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