librrd0-dev missing from Ubuntu - intention or accident?

[Martin Maney]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:07:09AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> There is no reason to use librrdp-perl in Ubuntu; it is intended for
> platforms where the shared library implementation does not work correctly.

Okay by me.  I dodge Perl as much as I can, so I had no idea.

> > Oh!  And when I tried to run sensors-detect, I found that the
> > /dev/i2c-* devices weren't present.  There's a script buried several

> They should be created by the kernel via udev when the corresponding modules
> are loaded.

I don't see anything being setup by udev for the I2C or sensor chip,
but the sensors commands work just fine without them.  Apparently it's
only sensors-detect that needs the devices.  But trying to figure out
which of the rarely if ever documented interface and sensors a machine
has without sensors-detect is really painful.

I've noticed some of the same sorts of information that lm-sensors is
used to dig out of the hardware available through /proc/acpi.  Is that
the New Wave for this, or is it only a partial overlap?

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