server seed: remove acpid?

[Robert Collins]

On Thu., 1 Nov. 2018, 08:55 Andreas Hasenack <andreas at canonical.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we are reviewing the server seeds
> (
> https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/+git/ubuntu/+ref/disco
> )
> and the acpid package came up. It's currently in the server seed,
> meaning it's installed by default.
>
> I did some tests in a VM, and a bare metal machine, running cosmic,
> and the power and suspend buttons, both from an usb keyboard and the
> box itself, worked just fine without acpid running.
> In fact, it's not even running on a default install unless the admin
> either enables it explicitly, or installs a package that populates
> /etc/acpi/events, or connects to the unix socket in /run/acpid.socket.
>

That's good I think. Systemd has built in ACPI event support, better not be
processing sleep twice.

As far as I know removing it should be fine.

Rob
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