Dear Maintainer,

I wish that the package tlp (to save powers) and thermald (to control the
temperature) is included in task-laptop, which are quite useful for laptops.

Best wishes,
Frank

Power-saving modes are (unfortunately) a major source of bugs in
hardware, firmware, and drivers.  For that reason we should be cautious
about enabling them.  Currently device power-saving policies are mostly
set by kernel drivers, and where they enable a power-saving mode by
default they also tend to have long lists of workarounds for buggy
devices.

I don't think a task should include programs that override our kernel's
defaults, as tlp appears to do.  If we decide those defaults are bad
then I think we should fix them in our kernel.

As for thermald, I understand that it is important for some newer
laptops.  Does it quietly do nothing on other models?

Ben.