Josselin Mouette writes: > Le dimanche 19 février 2006 à 08:46 -0500, Michael Poole a écrit : > > > Please stop these lies. I repeat: technical solutions do exist. For > > > hardware unnecessary at installation's first stage, it is only a matter > > > of making non-free available. For hardware necessary for the first > > > stage, it would be possible to make the installer load udebs from > > > alternate sources, but the people who'd be interested in it are > > > spreading lies on debian-devel instead of working on the code. > > > > Exactly what is the "technical solution" for installing drivers for > > firmware-requiring hardware if you only have Debian proper (i.e. main) > > available? That is the situation I described, and I really do not see > > any technical solution for it, no matter how much you call it a lie. > > > > If installation media for Debian must include arbitrary bits of > > non-free, it makes the distinction between "main" and those bits > > rather pointless and arbitrary. > > Given how the debian-installer works, it would be possible to make it > use optional, alternate sources for udebs. IIRC, it was planned from the > beginning but nobody took the time to implement it. That'd be what I > call a technical solution.
In other words, exactly as I said: if the user only has Debian, the hardware will not be usable. Michael Poole
