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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
Cc: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 19:39:35
Message-Id: uh802nq4y@kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode by Matt Turner
1 >>>>> On Fri, 07 Feb 2020, Matt Turner wrote:
2
3 > On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 9:10 AM Mike Pagano <mpagano@g.o> wrote:
4 >>
5 >> # Mike Pagano <mpagano@g.o> (2020-02-07)
6 >> # The standalone ebuild for this driver is made
7 >> # unnecessary as it is included in the package:
8 >> # sys-kernel/linux-firmware
9 >> sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode
10
11 > How about all the others as well?
12
13 > sys-firmware/iwl1000-ucode
14 > sys-firmware/iwl3160-7260-bt-ucode
15 > sys-firmware/iwl3160-ucode
16 > sys-firmware/iwl6005-ucode
17 > sys-firmware/iwl6030-ucode
18 > sys-firmware/iwl7260-ucode
19 > sys-firmware/iwl8000-ucode
20
21 I had asked the same question back in November, but an argument against
22 it was that sys-kernel/linux-firmware is quite a monster. In the default
23 configuration, its installation footprint is 515 MiB.
24
25 But yeah, either we should keep them all or remove them all.
26
27 Ulrich

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