Re: [gentoo-dev] Packages up for grabs due lack of time

[Michał Górny]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:09:22 +0200
Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:

> On 17/02/13 12:05, Michał Górny wrote:
> > savedconfig is a cheap hack. It lacks all the features USE flags have.
> > Really. We're talking here about replacing well-organized packages with
> > one cheap hack for the laziness of a few developers. But that's how
> > Gentoo worked for a long time.
>
> This is how you would justify adding separate ebuild for every firmware
> from the linux-firmware bundle?

I would justify it through keeping things split and bit-exact clean,
instead of tightly integrated.

Separate ebuilds mean that:

- each firmware has proper license,

- each firmware can be installed separately and it is _clean_ which
  firmwares are actually installed (think of binpkgs),

- each firmware can be upgraded when it needs to be (alternatively: all
  firmwares are re-installed over and over again when new firmware is
  added).

And I wouldn't mind having even 200 sys-firmware/ packages. And don't
tell me that firmwares change every month, these are particularly
maintenance-free packages.

And I don't mind having meta-packages for lazy people.

Although I believe that having a few 'group' packages for firmwares
will be 'acceptable'. Assuming those firmwares share a common license.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny