On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 12:03 PM Michael 'veremitz' Everitt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 07/02/20 19:50, Matt Turner wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 11:39 AM Ulrich Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>>> On Fri, 07 Feb 2020, Matt Turner wrote: > >>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 9:10 AM Mike Pagano <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> # Mike Pagano <[email protected]> (2020-02-07) > >>>> # The standalone ebuild for this driver is made > >>>> # unnecessary as it is included in the package: > >>>> # sys-kernel/linux-firmware > >>>> sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode > >>> How about all the others as well? > >>> sys-firmware/iwl1000-ucode > >>> sys-firmware/iwl3160-7260-bt-ucode > >>> sys-firmware/iwl3160-ucode > >>> sys-firmware/iwl6005-ucode > >>> sys-firmware/iwl6030-ucode > >>> sys-firmware/iwl7260-ucode > >>> sys-firmware/iwl8000-ucode > >> I had asked the same question back in November, but an argument against > >> it was that sys-kernel/linux-firmware is quite a monster. In the default > >> configuration, its installation footprint is 515 MiB. > > Oh yeah. The thread where the person arguing for keeping them didn't > > know about USE=savedconfig :) > > > You still have to install the full 515MiB before you can apply savedconfig, > unless you already know the list of firmwares included, and create the file > in advance. For some systems (esp. storage constrained) that's not a very > good option ...
Even that's not true. Just look at the git repo.
