-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/10/2013 04:45 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina > <zeroch...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Honestly while I agree this could have been handled a little more >> carefully we all win by having ONE place for firmware. The firmware >> package is like 20MB, if you don't have that much free harddrive space >> then you can use the savedconfig option to tune for just your hardware > > It's ~45MB when extracted, but the issue is not just with space, since > on a "proper" Gentoo system firmware is about the only thing that's > not compiled from source (besides less significant stuff like fonts, > many of which can be optionally compiled anyway). Combined with > various less-than-free licenses, installing one huge blob of firmware > is problematic for many users, also from a security point of view. Licenses are licenses, we all feel the same about non-free things. I whole heartedly disagree about the firmware, having a firmware on your system doesn't affect security, sorry, it just doesn't. > >> Having 300 -firmware packages is silly. > > I agree, but think that the process can be more user-friendly than a > savedconfig — perhaps a variable as was suggested already. > I am marked maintainer of linux-firmware due to my desire to make sure wifi related things work. I have no desire at all to implement use expand for this, HOWEVER, I am willing to accept a patch for that if it comes out even close to sane.
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