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[Colin Ian King <1387144@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We've moved to the intel-pstate driver by default for 14.10 which is an
improved frequency scaling driver.  On some hardware we've had evidence
of this pushing the CPU a little harder and some machines were running
hot, so we've also included thermald to stop thermal overruns.

Also, thermald has proved useful on 14.04 on some i7 based laptops that
have poor thermal designs, buggy thermal trip data, CPU thermal paste
issues or broken active cooling (such as fans).  These machines have
normally shutdown because of overheating.  Thermald kicks in passive
cooling to prevent thermal overruns on these broken machines.

However, it would be useful to uninstall this, so making it  recommended
is probably the best option.

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Title:
  why does linux-image-generic depend on thermald

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  i've just upgraded to 14.10, and i see that linux-image-generic now
  lists thermald as a dependency. is this really a genuine requirement
  now, that without which a computer cannot be used?

  can this be listed as a recommended or suggested dependency instead,
  so that it is not forced to be installed on computers which have no
  use for it?

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