On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 05:35:59PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > 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...
This might be a valid reason for including the driver in main if it actually happened. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
