> Nothing immediate for the former, but for the latter, you may want to
> look at the 'vrms' package.
Yes, I use that as well. But that's an "opt-in", and it's rather crude
(and operates after the fact). I think Debian would benefit from having
this kind of mechanism be much more "in your face" (and more
informative/educational). It would make it more acceptable (to me,
anyway) to distribute install-media with non-free firmwares, knowing that
those firmware won't be enabled silently).
> On my system (and I believe by default), it's set up with a monthly cron
> job to send an E-mail with the output of the program. I review that list
> every time, and there's rarely anything I feel I can clean up from the
> list, but it has happened a time or two. To the best of my recollection,
> I've never yet felt the need to run the program by hand.
FWIW, I only ever run it by hand. I can't remember disabling any
monthly cron job nor receiving any email from it, OTOH. I guess it
somehow guessed that I'd prefer to run it by hand ;-)
Stefan
