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From: Alexander Tsoy <alexander@××××.me>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 20:43:57
Message-Id: D7F0CBA7-2FD3-4AC6-A06C-9F0B8DED9756@tsoy.me
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode by Matt Turner
1 7 февраля 2020 г. 22:50:13 GMT+03:00, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> пишет:
2 >On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 11:39 AM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> >>>>> On Fri, 07 Feb 2020, Matt Turner wrote:
5 >>
6 >> > On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 9:10 AM Mike Pagano <mpagano@g.o>
7 >wrote:
8 >> >>
9 >> >> # Mike Pagano <mpagano@g.o> (2020-02-07)
10 >> >> # The standalone ebuild for this driver is made
11 >> >> # unnecessary as it is included in the package:
12 >> >> # sys-kernel/linux-firmware
13 >> >> sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode
14 >>
15 >> > How about all the others as well?
16 >>
17 >> > sys-firmware/iwl1000-ucode
18 >> > sys-firmware/iwl3160-7260-bt-ucode
19 >> > sys-firmware/iwl3160-ucode
20 >> > sys-firmware/iwl6005-ucode
21 >> > sys-firmware/iwl6030-ucode
22 >> > sys-firmware/iwl7260-ucode
23 >> > sys-firmware/iwl8000-ucode
24 >>
25 >> I had asked the same question back in November, but an argument
26 >against
27 >> it was that sys-kernel/linux-firmware is quite a monster. In the
28 >default
29 >> configuration, its installation footprint is 515 MiB.
30 >
31 >Oh yeah. The thread where the person arguing for keeping them didn't
32 >know about USE=savedconfig :)
33
34 USE=savedconfig is very inconvinient, especially for a package that can introduce new firmware files for the same hardware. Adding support for masks would improve that a bit.
35
36 --
37 Alexander Tsoy

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>