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?
Or has anything changed that would strictly require those two scripts
to be available by default?
One script converts from ancient config file format to the current
format. => Not needed since many years.
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.
Are other tools in the lm_sensors base package really useful without
a config file?