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Kent Fredric schrieb: |
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> firmware-video/ati-firmware |
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> firmware-video/ati |
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> and any category name with "Firmware" in it, will result in lots of |
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> redundant names exposed to users/deps if the package /also/ has |
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> firmware in the name. |
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Indeed, but this redundancy already exists in tree, e.g. dev-libs/lib* |
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or sys-libs/lib*. |
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I would deviate from upstream name only when there is a good reason to. |
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> There's also the other thing to consider, and thats there's a lot of |
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> hardware related stuff that is similar to firmware in a way, but also |
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> totally devoid of a central category for it. Namely, kernel level |
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> drivers. ( Which are not /that/ far removed from firmware, considering |
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> that you can compile firmware into kernels and they're of similar |
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> levels of necessity ). |
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The only other thing I would group together with firmware is the Atheros |
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HAL from the madwifi driver. |
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Best regards, |
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |
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