On Sat, 4 Jun 2011, Hoyt Duff wrote:
And this brings up a point of having the tainted repos as "opt-in".
This thinking comes from a philosophy of some kind of "pure" Linux
which eschews non-free licensed software.However, some hardware can
only be useful with non-free software and it's unrealistic to pretend
that such hardware does not exist nor that those using such hardware
will have the knowledge and skill to enable the tainted repo.
Additional hardware support packages are only in the 'nonfree' section
AFAIK, not in 'tainted'.
Christiaan
