On 07/02/20 20:39, Matt Turner wrote: > On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 12:03 PM Michael 'veremitz' Everitt > <gen...@veremit.xyz> wrote: >> On 07/02/20 19:50, Matt Turner wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 11:39 AM Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>>>>>> On Fri, 07 Feb 2020, Matt Turner wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 9:10 AM Mike Pagano <mpag...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>>> # Mike Pagano <mpag...@gentoo.org> (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. > In that case, and in truth this is what I do in practice, I just simply download the relevant firmware files Direct from git, and side-step all this package nonsense :)
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