On Friday, November 09, 2012 09:34:37 PM Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > 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.
Good point. I've made this change for Kubuntu as well as we landed just slightly oversize for 12.04.1. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
