Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

2005-12-06 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar said: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:47:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > >Err, what? Shouldn't they be in contrib? Or do you just mean packages > >that can use Windows drivers but don't need to? > > In the ndiswrapper case, its _only_ purpose is

Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

2005-12-06 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:47:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >Err, what? Shouldn't they be in contrib? Or do you just mean packages >that can use Windows drivers but don't need to? In the ndiswrapper case, its _only_ purpose is to load binary Windows drivers for the linux kernel. Aníbal Monsalv

Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

2005-12-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:00:14PM +1100, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > Should we do something about packages in main that load MS Windows > binary drivers? Err, what? Shouldn't they be in contrib? Or do you just mean packages that can use Windows drivers but don't need to? Cheers, aj signa

Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

2005-12-06 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Michael Poole said: > Aníbal Monsalve Salazar writes: > > > Should we do something about packages in main that load MS Windows > > binary drivers? > > Are there many of these? If there are (as I suspect) just one or two, > would it hurt to name them? How do you eval

Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

2005-12-05 Thread Michael Poole
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar writes: > Should we do something about packages in main that load MS Windows > binary drivers? Are there many of these? If there are (as I suspect) just one or two, would it hurt to name them? How do you evaluate the tradeoff between someone using Debian with a non-Linux

Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario

2005-12-05 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:52:32AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >Linux in a binary world > >What if.. what if the linux kernel developers tomorrow accept that >binary modules are OK and are essential for the progress of linux. >[...] This message from lkml starts the mail thread at: http://www