On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 23:54, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 15:47:10 -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
Of these packages, lm_sensors pulls in 33MB of dependencies (mostly PERL, including the PERL interpreter). I'm not personally sure if there's sufficient value in lm_sensors to justify installing it by default. (Pulling in an entire language interpreter just to support this one package seems like overkill).
It the dep on Perl still only for the two interactive (!) scripts in the lm_sensors package?
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The other script may be essential, because without running it, you likely don't have any working config file to begin with. It tries to detect h/w but still isn't automatic. There's still a big fat warning about running it with --auto option.
This also means it's not necessary after initial configuration and could be uninstalled. Looks like a candidate for non-mandatory subpackage to me.
Regards, Dominik