On 8 November 2012 15:10, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7 November 2012 12:55, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <[email protected]> wrote: >> As part of the ongoing goal to remove python2 from the installation >> media [1] ndisgtk was identified to still be using python2, pygtk and >> python-glade2. >> >> Are there plans to port ndisgtk to python3, pygi and gtkbuilder ? >> Is ndisgtk still needed? Or can ubuntu-drivers-common take over this >> functionality. >> >> Would it be acceptable to drop the ndisgtk (GUI, not the command line >> ndiswrapper-utils) from the install images? >> The current instructions/documentation for ndiswrapper do list both >> ndisgtk and command line way of installing windows drivers. [2] >> >> I do want to question the need for ndiswrapper on the install media in >> recent years: (i) given that all major computer manufacturers ship >> ubuntu pre-installed and (ii) preferred way to get the windows driver >> is over the network [2] (iii) and the steps to manually retrieve >> windows drivers from a windows installation are harder to follow than >> ndiswrapper command-line instructions. >> > > It turns out that ndiswrapper linux kernel module was dropped, as far > back as during precise development or possibly before that. > At the time ndiswrapper module was dropped, ndiswrapper-dkms was not seeded. > > I have now opened a bug to drop bogus provides:ndiswrapper from the > linux kernel [3]. > > And I would like to raise a merge proposal to ubuntu seeds to do one of: > * to drop ndiswrapper-common, ndiswrapper-utils-1.9, ndisgtk from all seeds > * seed ndiswrapper-dkms
These are now dropped from all ubuntu flavours, by consensus. I have also raised a merge proposal to do similar drop for 12.04.2 on ubuntu only. As this will give a tiny bit of space on the cd. Regards, Dmitrijs. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
