Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 09:12:09
Message-Id: 0b50d660-b934-47bc-9082-71580827d692@email.android.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory by Ulrich Mueller
1 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
2
3 >>>>>> On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
4 >
5 >> 2013/2/8 Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu>:
6 >>> I would say that we might want to review linux-firmware, and if the
7 >>> newest firmware _is_ there, just get rid of the split one.
8 >>>
9 >> That should be probably the best approach, to actually kill of the
10 >> lone ones and keep the linux-firmware only.
11 >
12 >I disagree. Why should we force users to install lots of crap (some of
13 >it being non-free) that they will never need because they don't have
14 >the hardware?
15 >
16 >Ulrich
17
18 Why not specify which firmwares are to be installed using a 'FIRMWARE' variable. Similar to VIDEOCARDS?
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21 Joost Roeleveld
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23 Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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