-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/10/2013 10:55 AM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > 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? > Honestly while I agree this could have been handled a little more carefully we all win by having ONE place for firmware. The firmware package is like 20MB, if you don't have that much free harddrive space then you can use the savedconfig option to tune for just your hardware but honestly this package is rather critical for any system that does wifi or video capture and a few other things. I don't want to have to hunt and find firmware packages, the ones that are seperate due to license issues (read: Broadcom) will stay seperate, the rest I'll be poking upstream about including in the firmware tree then killing.
Having 300 -firmware packages is silly. - -Zero -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRGAXwAAoJEKXdFCfdEflK+xgP/A0F+XHiZLXo5D6rqvavyocE cKJh/E3fSMB5QcqVhK/kWXhcjDiRz+5niMR30oMX05uwvbx6Fo8Kicne6XHw9fhv UHo5E/k5e6lwaPOeI2nr59XaQ7Pj8PbhL9xrGA+CF1Yx7tJ2DqvEzYzOsuHlZG+B /yrFFKQ2TGeftXpKVYY9iQH3pHCzOR5P40PURwW0onvx5Q2LunAVpOmUO520jL3h dGoPWhjxK8RxpCOp/KbzxR27SD8kSWjgROmXpoIG0cfmohk/wfSwHyqg+i3pYDu8 b9Fs0OeOMnu2AxVeBCWHGFITeDz/0XVxlBThbzPj2KTnyQXoWfOHvOmGY9RxhJwh Cye/vWepdzUa7Vsdj37JiGfaHh9F68UwT50OelR1HJYjJHvaMbZZAfvsbENWSzn4 +esRhFxEyF7bk70+n6RXAFTx/mMPCwoADSgIqqwy/Bv5R/Z0b3hWlF3GWVeR3nRc Kd6kqifjYf8uVoUPAe1G5k5J+lQyyEva0Y93ML20y3pR0Ya3kJRioYxY1i2UdfVx reB1R3t/5O62dEXcyHyJeNfKYUef3fTjz4ieNhbvvmn/VueklyNJL0wmGwLCwMJn 92uYVpU0hdQFPxNZc5rHavnB6MOl49y/68/rNEaRhUe5Y38DNKEE5zL94sMXF4pf f4wQkVOOpYFdvaTRLQRR =Pn47 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
