On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 12:44 PM Alexander Tsoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > 7 февраля 2020 г. 22:50:13 GMT+03:00, Matt Turner <[email protected]> пишет: > >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 :) > > USE=savedconfig is very inconvinient, especially for a package that can > introduce new firmware files for the same hardware. Adding support for masks > would improve that a bit.
Agreed. Mask/wildcard support would solve that problem well.
