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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: zerochaos@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due lack of time
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:05:56
Message-Id: 20130217110551.653158ed@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due lack of time by "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina"
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4 On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:06:19 -0500
5 "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o> wrote:
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10 > On 02/16/2013 10:11 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
11 > > Can we please stop removing individual firmware packages until
12 > > sys-kernel/linux-firmware has proper license labels, and allows for
13 > > selective installation?
14 >
15 > I would be very happy to have the licensing issues fixed, it looks like
16 > it won't be fun, however I was originally told that redist was a
17 > required right for things to be added to linux-firmware at all so I fear
18 > a lot of things may be out of sync in the upstream package.
19 >
20 > Please though, can we all stop pretending savedconfig doesn't exist? We
21 > allow for selective installation already, AND you can install none of it
22 > if you want, no one is forcing files on anyone that doesn't want them.
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24 savedconfig is a cheap hack. It lacks all the features USE flags have.
25 Really. We're talking here about replacing well-organized packages with
26 one cheap hack for the laziness of a few developers. But that's how
27 Gentoo worked for a long time.
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30 Best regards,
31 Michał Górny
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due lack of time Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>