Thread: Bug report: hildon-desktop cpu usage, result=causes slow battery drain
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tomast is offline tomast
2010-09-03 , 09:53
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#86
Originally Posted by grog View Post
Actually no, I hadn't touched either of these packages before now. I had just read through Mohammad's thread & was commenting on what I had experienced after installing Tomast's version. TX
I actually installed Mohammad's deb just to find the reason for this, but sadly I wasn't offered to replace it either (without --reinstall).

EDIT: But IF it turns out that the two debs behaves differently in this regard, then read on...

The only important difference that I can find is that Mohammad has changed the deb's "Maintainer" field. It is possible to interpret http://linux.die.net/man/5/apt_preferences *** it matters:
*** = insert some word combination unobvious to a swede like me

If two or more versions have the same priority and version number but either the packages differ in some of their metadata or the --reinstall option is given, install the uninstalled one.

Anyhow, it would be very interresting to see the output of 'apt-cache policy' and 'apt-cache policy hildon-desktop' (or 'apt-cache policy <packagename>') from someone who have seen this "automatic reinstallation" happen on some package. The only thing I can think of now is if those who have this problem have performed an SSU update which have changed some apt settings.

/T
Last edited by tomast; 2010-09-03 at 11:53.