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On 02/12/2013 05:30 PM, Christopher Head wrote: |
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> On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:51:15 +0000 (UTC) |
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> Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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>> Christopher Head posted on Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:38:14 -0800 as |
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>> excerpted: |
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>>> On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:43:02 +0100 Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o> |
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>>> wrote: |
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>>>> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o> |
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>>>> wrote: |
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>>>>>> +1 from me; I've had a few machines break on kernel upgrades |
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>>>>>> because I didn't have the proper firmware installed (I guess |
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>>>>>> older kernel sources came with the firmware?). |
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>>>>> For starters, if kernel sources provide /lib/firmware, how do you |
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>>>>> deal with file collisions? |
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>>> |
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>>> Please don't make kernel sources RDEPEND on firmware. The kernel |
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>>> DOES NOT depend on firmware to work properly. Well over half my |
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>>> machines prove that: they work perfectly fine (read: 100% of their |
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>>> hardware works) with no firmware at all installed. |
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>> Not a problem as long as the RDEPEND is under USE=firmware or similar. |
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>> No USE=firmware, no rdepend! =:^) |
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>> Kernel sources providing /lib/firmware itself shouldn't be a problem |
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>> either, as that's just a dir, which many packages may own. The |
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>> individual firmware files would be a problem, but the USE=firmware |
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>> RDEPEND solution should solve that. |
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> |
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> Yes, of course, I meant please don’t depend unconditionally. A |
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> conditional depend is fine by me, and I don’t care about one random |
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> directory being created—I just don’t want a whole package being pulled |
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> in for nothing. |
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While much of this thread is un-actionable I believe this is a good idea |
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to do. |
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What is everyone's opinion of adding a USE=firmware option to pull in |
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PDEPEND="linux-firmware" in linux-2.eclass? |
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Thanks, |
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Zero |
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