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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: RFC: install linux-firmware with kernel sources (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: Firmware cleanup, part #1)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:50:59
Message-Id: 511BA84D.5080504@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: RFC: install linux-firmware with kernel sources (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: Firmware cleanup, part #1) by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
1 Diego Elio Pettenò schrieb:
2 > On 13/02/2013 14:38, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
3 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/457082
4 >> Instead of USE defaults, this could be turned on in the desktop
5 >> profile as wifi, radeon cards etc. are less likely to be present on
6 >> non-desktop systems.
7 > IIRC some server systems need ethernet cards' firmware though, so IUSE
8 > defaults sounds better...
9
10 Indeed. Firmware is also needed for some RAID controllers.
11 I imagine that users of the default profile are more likely to not need
12 hand-holding here and more likely to want a lean system by default. But
13 I have no strong opinion either way.
14
15
16 Best regards,
17 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

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