>Doug Wyatt <dwyatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Yesterday, when I ran 'yum update' on F7 I got two packages >> installed for which I can't find a reason (see yum log >> excerpt below). >> >> The two new packages are vbetool and radeontool. From >> what I can find, both used to be part of pm-utils. >> >> I really don't know about vbetool, maybe it's needed, but >> radeontool is described as: >> "radeontool is a hack to save some battery on an >> ATI Radeon Mobility graphics chip. Radeontool can >> turn off and on the backlight and external video >> output." >> >> But, my platform is a desktop, not a laptop, with a GeForce >> 6800 GT video card. >> >> Using yumex, I tried uninstalling radeontool to see what >> depended on it; there were nearly 200 of them and pretty >> much none of those were optional. They included most of >> the OpenOffice pkgs, Control-Center and system-config-*, >> for example. >> >> Can anyone explain, or even speculate, why radeontool? >> > Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It (and vbetool) were split out of pm-utils. > If I assume that you saw that I noted this, myself, then may I assume that you imply that radeontool became a dependency simply because its parent package was one, and not because it's actually needed? Is this also because RPM is blind to hardware, beyond CPU architecture? - DAW
