Re: GNOME Power Manager

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 4/22/06, Mark Rosenstand <mark borkware net> wrote:
> 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.

Are you aware of anyone packaging Gnome for any distro that uses
linux-2.4.x?  I'm not, and thus don't see the point in 2.4 kernels
holding back our decision for new features/modules (especially since,
as Andrew points out, the relevant users can use older
deprecated/removed modules).

My $0.02 anyway...