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acpi-support package

  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #344

Comment 344 for bug 59695

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Brian Ealdwine (eode) wrote : Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

>Could it be possible that installing pre compiled packages
> affects the system in a adverse way ?

someone running gentoo posted in here earlier with the same issue.
precompiled or no, it's the same code. extreme optimizations could
possibly affect things adversely, but it would be inordinately
improbable for opptimization to fix a bug randomly.