Re: GNOME Power Manager

[Mark Rosenstand <mark borkware net>]

On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 00:28 +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> This situation is slightly different in that we're replacing 
> functionality; my reaction would be that the small number of users still 
> using 2.4 kernels can install battstat (hell, they've got it installed 
> already; they just need to remember not to randomly delete it!).

People usually use a package manager and upgrade their packages. A step
in this process is to remove the old files.

> However, our "GNOME Desktop" (which is basically a recommendation to 
> distros, and all the distros are on 2.6) only needs to work on 2.6.

The BSD's have yet to upgrade to 2.6, so I'd opt for keeping the applet
in gnome-applets and add a configure switch to enable or disable.

It's my understanding that the FreeBSD people are getting very close to
a working HAL, and when that happens the NetBSD people will probably
follow closely, so it could be removed entirely in a release or two.