On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:29:39AM -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > I think this should be mentioned somewhere *much* more prominent. I > consider myself pretty tech-savy, but only stumbled upon this just now > on the this list. Can a non-free package be made essential or > required? It seems there is really absolutely no-reason other than > non-freeness for not installing this by default.
It is only essential if your CPU has a microcode bug that affects you AND your motherboard maker isn't providing useful bios updates AND you don't apply bios updates. So for a lot of people it is in fact not essential at all. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
