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| From: | "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: RFC: install linux-firmware with kernel sources (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: Firmware cleanup, part #1) | ||
| Date: | Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:53:56 | ||
| Message-Id: | 511BA8F4.3060605@flameeyes.eu | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: RFC: install linux-firmware with kernel sources (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: Firmware cleanup, part #1) by "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" |
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| 1 | On 13/02/2013 15:50, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: |
| 2 | > Indeed. Firmware is also needed for some RAID controllers. |
| 3 | > I imagine that users of the default profile are more likely to not need |
| 4 | > hand-holding here and more likely to want a lean system by default. But |
| 5 | > I have no strong opinion either way. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | My point is mostly "why make it different if there is no need to make it |
| 8 | different?". |
| 9 | |
| 10 | People who don't need the firmware can deal with disabling it themselves. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | -- |
| 13 | Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes |
| 14 | flameeyes@×××××××××.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: RFC: install linux-firmware with kernel sources (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: Firmware cleanup, part #1) | Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> |