-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/10/2013 11:54 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <d...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> I agree as I have also needed to google and search in forums to get >>> proper firmware installed in the past in some machines :/ >> >> +1 from me; I've had a few machines break on kernel upgrades because I >> didn't have the proper firmware installed (I guess older kernel >> sources came with the firmware?). > > This is another problem, namely dependency level problem. > I don't see how having kernel sources ebuilds providing /lib/firmware > would fix any of the listed issues without causing other "side > effects". > For starters, if kernel sources provide /lib/firmware, how do you deal > with file collisions? The number of collisions has been reduced drastically in the last ~year, I don't believe there are actually any left now. I think the kernel has almost entirely stopped shipping firmware. It may be time to make linux-firmware an RDEPEND of *-sources
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