Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: >> It is certainly the case that I would like our users to be able to use >> their computers regardless of the mechanism that the vendor uses to ship >> firmware, yes. Remember that we don't ship contrib as part of the >> installer, either. > > Thanks to the excellent work of the installer team, debian-installer is > incredibly modular. Surely someone could add hooks to load modules from > contrib (only if the autodetected devices need them, and prompting > first), either downloaded from the network or supplied on some physical > medium? You seem to be advocating an ideological "compromise" solution > for what sounds more like a technical problem.
We could do that, but it couldn't reasonably form part of the standard debian-installer. A forked d-i doesn't do anyone any favours. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
