On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 12:29:42PM +0200, Ansgar wrote: > On Fri, 2022-08-19 at 12:19 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 08:58:21PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > system will *also* be configured to use the non-free-firmware > > > component by default in the apt sources.list file. > > > > What's the rationale for this one? > > > > I think it would make more sense to only configure the system to enable > > the non-free-firmware component if the installer determines that > > packages from that component are useful for the running system (or if > > the user explicitly asked to do so). > > I think this would be confusing: detachable hardware (e.g., USB > devices) would work or not work depending on whether it was connected > at installation time. At least for amd64 it wouldn't make a different > either way due to the microcode firmware packages. > > For the same reason the system should probably install all (reasonable) > firmware by default, just like we install all kernel drivers even for > devices that are not present on the target system. > openSUSE has this clever system that hooks into zypper (their apt equivalent) to install the firmware package on demand if a matching PCI ID is found (presumably USB device identifiers too, but I'm not sure).
This could be a nice longer-term solution? In the shorter term, for another distro comparison, Fedora does what Ansgar suggests and just preinstalls a lot of firmware. Best regards, -- Michel Alexandre Salim identities: https://keyoxide.org/5dce2e7e9c3b1cffd335c1d78b229d2f7ccc04f2
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