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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 09:19:06
Message-Id: 20758.5252.640445.965647@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory by Samuli Suominen
1 >>>>> On Sat, 09 Feb 2013, Samuli Suominen wrote:
2
3 >> I disagree. Why should we force users to install lots of crap (some
4 >> of it being non-free) that they will never need because they don't
5 >> have the hardware?
6
7 > Maybe you don't understand how linux-firmware package works. It only
8 > installs what you want -- it uses the savedconfig eclass to handle a
9 > list of wanted firmwares.
10
11 > I admit I never bothered to trim down my install of it, but the
12 > point is YOU CAN do it.
13
14 I stand corrected.
15
16 Ulrich