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Bug 464478 - Split out lm_sensor libs into a sub package
Summary: Split out lm_sensor libs into a sub package
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: lm_sensors
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Phil Knirsch
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: FedoraMini
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-29 12:24 UTC by Peter Robinson
Modified: 2015-03-05 01:20 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-09-30 11:56:13 UTC
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Description Peter Robinson 2008-09-29 12:24:24 UTC 
It would be useful to split out the lm_sensor libs into a -libs subpackage that would allow packages that use the lm_sensors libraries to install just the -libs so that it doesn't pull in extra dependencies like perl
Comment 1 Hans de Goede 2008-09-30 11:56:13 UTC 
libsensors is useless with having sensors configured which requires sensors-detect. Having a system without perl is as good as impossible anyways, so splitting it up to not Require perl does not make much sense either.

Closing as not a bug.

Feel free to re-open if you think you've got strong (new) arguments to do the split anyways.
Comment 2 Peter Robinson 2008-09-30 12:06:21 UTC 
I don't believe attacking my idea of having a system without perl is the best way to deal with this. I believe it should be autoconfigured by hal/dbus and all that group of stuff anyway without requiring a user to run some detection script. One reason to do this would be to allow the installation of net-snmp-utils which in turn requires net-snmp-libs which requires the above mentioned libraries but the net-snmp-utils are useful on their own with out all the other stuff installed because they can be used for snmpwalks of remote systems.
Comment 3 Hans de Goede 2008-09-30 12:26:18 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> I don't believe attacking my idea of having a system without perl is the best
> way to deal with this.

I'm not attacking your idea, I'm just saying it isn't a very practical idea ATM. If you really want to pursue this, please do. And when you've tackled the much bigger fish in getting a perl free system I'll gladly revisit this.

> I believe it should be autoconfigured by hal/dbus and
> all that group of stuff anyway without requiring a user to run some detection
> script.

Unfortunately, due to the way it is implemented in hardware, hw monitoring cannot be simply autodetected and configured from something like udev.
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