Andrew Suffield writes: > >On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:51:58PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> > You also need to turn this question around and ask it the other way: >> > does having these drivers in contrib actually hurt anything? >> >> Yes. It currently means that we can't ship an installer with support for >> this hardware, because we don't use material from contrib and non-free >> by default. > >Putting these drivers into main instead of contrib would not alter >this, because it still wouldn't work without non-free. Any *practical* >difference?
Yes, quite a lot actually - we can then ask people to feed a floopy or CD containing the vendor-supplied firmware. Do keep up... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
