Scripsit Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 11:33:21AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> Please suggest any case which you don't think this criteria adequately >> covers. > The bios. > Unless, we decide that the bios we put in non-free isn't the bios we > need to boot the machine. On which architectures would we want to let anything declare a Depends: on a BIOS package? Granted, the only arch I'm really familiar with is i386, but most of those machines come with a sufficiently adequate BIOS in ROM that it would be rather silly for most packages, including stock kernels and boot loaders, to declare more than a Suggests: against an alternative BIOS. That would just bloat the user's file system without gaining him anything. -- Henning Makholm "Det er du nok fandens ene om at mene. For det ligger i Australien!"