Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory

2013-02-11 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/02/13 05:27, Peter Stuge wrote: I, as another user, prefer not to have a whole bunch of firmware installed if I only want one or two of them. +1. Also licences. It's a mess. Not suggesting that *I* have the magic-unicorn-land-perfect

Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory

2013-02-11 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/10/2013 11:27 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: I, as a user, prefer not to have to hunt for firmware for devices supported vy the kernel. I would either install all of them or filter out the firmwares for devices I am unlikely to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory

2013-02-11 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/11/2013 04:03 AM, Alexander Berntsen wrote: On 11/02/13 05:27, Peter Stuge wrote: I, as another user, prefer not to have a whole bunch of firmware installed if I only want one or two of them. +1. Also licences. It's a mess. Not suggesting

Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory

2013-02-10 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: Any objections if I slap a generic package.mask on every firmware package installing to wrong directory? Half of them install to /$(get_libdir)/firmware as opposed to correct /lib/firmware. Most of them are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory

2013-02-10 Thread Peter Stuge
J. Roeleveld wrote: I, as a user, prefer not to have to hunt for firmware for devices supported vy the kernel. I would either install all of them or filter out the firmwares for devices I am unlikely to get. I, as another user, prefer not to have a whole bunch of firmware installed if I only

Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory

2013-02-09 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: 2013/2/8 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu: I would say that we might want to review linux-firmware, and if the newest firmware _is_ there, just get rid of the split one. That should be probably the best approach, to actually kill of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory

2013-02-09 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 09/02/13 11:06, Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: 2013/2/8 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu: I would say that we might want to review linux-firmware, and if the newest firmware _is_ there, just get rid of the split one. That should be probably the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory

2013-02-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: 2013/2/8 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu: I would say that we might want to review linux-firmware, and if the newest firmware _is_ there, just get rid of the split one. That should be probably the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory

2013-02-09 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 09/02/13 11:11, J. Roeleveld wrote: Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: 2013/2/8 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu: I would say that we might want to review linux-firmware, and if the newest firmware _is_ there, just get rid of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory

2013-02-09 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sat, 09 Feb 2013, Samuli Suominen wrote: I disagree. Why should we force users to install lots of crap (some of it being non-free) that they will never need because they don't have the hardware? Maybe you don't understand how linux-firmware package works. It only installs what you want

Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory

2013-02-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 09/02/13 11:11, J. Roeleveld wrote: Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: 2013/2/8 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu: I would say that we might want to review linux-firmware, and if the newest

Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory

2013-02-09 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:09:15 +0200 Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 09/02/13 11:06, Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: 2013/2/8 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu: I would say that we might want to review linux-firmware, and if the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory

2013-02-09 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sat, 9 Feb 2013, Michał Górny wrote: I don't think that solves the license problem properly. Say, if user doesn't want non-free software, he's going to have the whole package masked. He'd have to work-around license + savedconfig. Now that I look at it, it seems that the ebuild doesn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory

2013-02-08 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 08/02/2013 18:53, Samuli Suominen wrote: Then intrested parties get to fix what they want and unmask? I would say that we might want to review linux-firmware, and if the newest firmware _is_ there, just get rid of the split one. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu —

Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory

2013-02-08 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
2013/2/8 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu: On 08/02/2013 18:53, Samuli Suominen wrote: Then intrested parties get to fix what they want and unmask? I would say that we might want to review linux-firmware, and if the newest firmware _is_ there, just get rid of the split one. That

Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory

2013-02-08 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 08-02-2013 a las 19:01 +0100, Diego Elio Pettenò escribió: On 08/02/2013 18:53, Samuli Suominen wrote: Then intrested parties get to fix what they want and unmask? I would say that we might want to review linux-firmware, and if the newest firmware _is_ there, just get rid of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Half of the firmware packages in tree install to wrong directory

2013-02-08 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/02/13 01:14 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: 2013/2/8 Diego Elio Pettenò flamee...@flameeyes.eu: On 08/02/2013 18:53, Samuli Suominen wrote: Then intrested parties get to fix what they want and unmask? I would say that we might want to review