Re: External dependencies, DeviceKit-power and GNOME Power Manager

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 20:00 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> If the DeviceKit-power daemon does data collection and stuff,
> shouldn't it be then running all the time (and as soon during the boot
> process as possible)?

Sure, you could start them easily at boot (a single DBUS send request
would do it) but I would argue boot time is not interesting, and it
needs to happen as quickly as possible.

> What about DeviceKit-disks and S.M.A.R.T. monitoring (which I think it
> does):
> If the service is only started as soon as you log in and start an
> application like palimpsest, isn't there a risk that we could miss
> important events, i.e. shouldn't DeviceKit-disks not also be started
> as soon as possible and running all the time?

That's a different discussion :-)

Richard.