Re: [Trisquel-users] Using proprietary softwares through wine

[onpon4]

Linux hardcodes the names of firmware files. If one is missing, an error  
message naming that firmware file is displayed. Debian's Linux just takes out  
the firmware, so these error messages show. Linux-libre removes these names  
from the source code and prints "DEBLOBBED" instead of the name of the  
firmware files, because printing the name of the firmware file like that is  
too much like a recommendation for it. What Linux should do is have the names  
of the firmware files in a dataset somewhere else, not hardcoded into the  
source code; then Linux-libre would be able to just exclude the non-libre  
firmware from this dataset, and anyone wishing to use the firmware would be  
able to just add its name in, rather than having to edit the source code and  
recompile it.