Bugzilla – Bug 592738
All 'laptop' patterns exclude powertop
Last modified: 2010-04-13 13:29:50 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100317 SUSE/3.6.2-1.2 Firefox/3.6.2 patterns-openSUSE-laptop does not include the utility 'powertop' as a suggested package. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. zypper in patterns-openSUSE-laptop 2. Note packages to be installed Actual Results: powertop is excluded Expected Results: Include powertop for additional power management options. Package is included on DVD and incurs minimal cost to user (very small memory usage both on disk and in RAM).
I don't think it should be installed by default. I see it more as a debugging tool. And it's already mentioned as related package in the laptop pattern.