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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:18:15
Message-Id: 51252175.9070406@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
1 Diego Elio Pettenò schrieb:
2 >> linux-firmware[non-free] <- the use flag to toggle between free and
3 >> non-free licenses.
4 >> linux-firmware-noredist <- This one is RESTRICT="fetch mirror"
5 > +1 — It requires some work from someone to actually split the stuff
6 > manually though, and there is at least one problem: somebody _got_ to
7 > redist the firmware for it to be fetched.. unless.
8
9 Distinguishing between free and non-free firmware would be ok with me
10 but I am not going to invest any work in that.
11 I think the bindist flag is suitable for toggling the download of
12 non-redistributable firmware. Possibly SRC_URI for the
13 non-redistributable files can point to upstream gitweb. Although I don't
14 know happy upstream will be when hordes of Gentoo users start hammering
15 their servers.
16
17
18 Best regards,
19 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn