On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > # Some of these install to wrong directory, /lib64/firmware > # as opposed to correct /lib/firmware > # Some of these don't have maintainer > # Some of these are replaced by the firmware from the > # linux-firmware package:
> net-wireless/b43-firmware > net-wireless/b43legacy-firmware These are neither of the above. I also don't understand masking packages because the firmware is in linux-firmware. Is this an official policy? Sometimes firmware packages are slotted, and it's also easier to install a package than list and update a changing set of firmware files in /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware (referring to ar9271, rt2860, rt2870, i2400m). On the other hand, firmware is often very stable, so why mask a package just because it has no maintainer? Who wins by having atmel, or zd1201/zd1211 masked? There are no open bugs, so what's the point? -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte
