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From: "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: Firmware cleanup, part #1
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:29:38
Message-Id: 511D6561.8040909@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: Firmware cleanup, part #1 by "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn"
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4 On 02/13/2013 08:39 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
5 > Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina schrieb:
6 >> Having 300 -firmware packages is silly.
7 >
8 > I can't help but noticing that some of the recently introduced iwlwifi
9 > firmware packages came from Chromium OS. So there seems to be interest
10 > in individual packages from downstreams over the linux-firmware package.
11 >
12 I think we all agree savedconfig isn't an ideal implementation, if we
13 were able to offer something better I don't think downstream would be
14 clamoring to add more packages to maintain.
15
16 Not that I personally have any idea how to improve the situation. I like
17 the idea of use_expand but that seems to get ugly really fast.
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