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On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina |
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<zerochaos@g.o> wrote: |
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> Honestly while I agree this could have been handled a little more |
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> carefully we all win by having ONE place for firmware. The firmware |
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> package is like 20MB, if you don't have that much free harddrive space |
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> then you can use the savedconfig option to tune for just your hardware |
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It's ~45MB when extracted, but the issue is not just with space, since |
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on a "proper" Gentoo system firmware is about the only thing that's |
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not compiled from source (besides less significant stuff like fonts, |
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many of which can be optionally compiled anyway). Combined with |
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various less-than-free licenses, installing one huge blob of firmware |
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is problematic for many users, also from a security point of view. |
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> Having 300 -firmware packages is silly. |
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I agree, but think that the process can be more user-friendly than a |
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savedconfig — perhaps a variable as was suggested already. |
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Maxim Kammerer |
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