On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:09:22 +0200 Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 17/02/13 12:05, Michał Górny wrote: > > 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. > > This is how you would justify adding separate ebuild for every firmware > from the linux-firmware bundle? I would justify it through keeping things split and bit-exact clean, instead of tightly integrated. Separate ebuilds mean that: - each firmware has proper license, - each firmware can be installed separately and it is _clean_ which firmwares are actually installed (think of binpkgs), - each firmware can be upgraded when it needs to be (alternatively: all firmwares are re-installed over and over again when new firmware is added). And I wouldn't mind having even 200 sys-firmware/ packages. And don't tell me that firmwares change every month, these are particularly maintenance-free packages. And I don't mind having meta-packages for lazy people. Although I believe that having a few 'group' packages for firmwares will be 'acceptable'. Assuming those firmwares share a common license. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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