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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Cc: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 19:50:33
Message-Id: CAEdQ38HLtiZ52fYd3FdLxPKTGa8RySkoGaaDEsExp68ajJOEcw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 11:39 AM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > >>>>> On Fri, 07 Feb 2020, Matt Turner wrote:
4 >
5 > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 9:10 AM Mike Pagano <mpagano@g.o> wrote:
6 > >>
7 > >> # Mike Pagano <mpagano@g.o> (2020-02-07)
8 > >> # The standalone ebuild for this driver is made
9 > >> # unnecessary as it is included in the package:
10 > >> # sys-kernel/linux-firmware
11 > >> sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode
12 >
13 > > How about all the others as well?
14 >
15 > > sys-firmware/iwl1000-ucode
16 > > sys-firmware/iwl3160-7260-bt-ucode
17 > > sys-firmware/iwl3160-ucode
18 > > sys-firmware/iwl6005-ucode
19 > > sys-firmware/iwl6030-ucode
20 > > sys-firmware/iwl7260-ucode
21 > > sys-firmware/iwl8000-ucode
22 >
23 > I had asked the same question back in November, but an argument against
24 > it was that sys-kernel/linux-firmware is quite a monster. In the default
25 > configuration, its installation footprint is 515 MiB.
26
27 Oh yeah. The thread where the person arguing for keeping them didn't
28 know about USE=savedconfig :)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode Michael 'veremitz' Everitt <gentoo@×××××××.xyz>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode Alexander Tsoy <alexander@××××.me>