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On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:06:19 -0500
"Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" <zeroch...@gentoo.org> wrote:

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> On 02/16/2013 10:11 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > Can we please stop removing individual firmware packages until
> > sys-kernel/linux-firmware has proper license labels, and allows for
> > selective installation?
> 
> I would be very happy to have the licensing issues fixed, it looks like
> it won't be fun, however I was originally told that redist was a
> required right for things to be added to linux-firmware at all so I fear
> a lot of things may be out of sync in the upstream package.
> 
> Please though, can we all stop pretending savedconfig doesn't exist?  We
> allow for selective installation already, AND you can install none of it
> if you want, no one is forcing files on anyone that doesn't want them.

savedconfig is a cheap hack. It lacks all the features USE flags have.
Really. We're talking here about replacing well-organized packages with
one cheap hack for the laziness of a few developers. But that's how
Gentoo worked for a long time.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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