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On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 7:42 AM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > Can we please put users above silly politics? Gentoo 'does not depend' |
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> > on any non-free package to print the warning. If people have hardware |
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> > that requires non-free firmware, the least we can do is point out where |
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> > to get this firmware from. |
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> s/If/If and only if/ and I'll be fine with it. :) |
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Are you proposing that the ebuild inspect the user's hardware and/or |
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kernel config before printing a warning? That sounds like a terrible |
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idea to me. Who is going to maintain the problematic hardware list? |
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I do think it would be nice to give people a way to opt-out of seeing |
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this warning message every time they install a kernel though. |
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