Maxim Kammerer schrieb:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Kernel sources providing /lib/firmware itself shouldn't be a problem
>>>> either, as that's just a dir, which many packages may own.  The
>>>> individual firmware files would be a problem, but the USE=firmware
>>>> RDEPEND solution should solve that.
>> What is everyone's opinion of adding a USE=firmware option to pull in
>> PDEPEND="linux-firmware" in linux-2.eclass?
> Not exactly an opinion, but a couple of notes:
>
> 1. Kernel's "make modules_install" triggers "make firmware_install",
> which installs a strict subset of linux-firmware (for enabled modules
> — e.g., "3com/typhoon.bin"). A way to work around that is to supply
> INSTALL_FW_PATH=... to make.

Most if not all such conflicts can be avoided by USE="deblob"

Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

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