Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?
On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 05:08:57PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 05:13:22PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
>> Maybe and idea would to do something like isa-support does for e.g sseX-support
>> on CPUs that does not have that feature: It fails on installation with an debconf message, IIRC.
>> So that would allow something like "new package" | "you-need-to-enable-nonfree-firmware-reminder-package"
>>
>Failing on installation is a terrible user experience, let's not, pretty
>please.
It's not great, no. Do you have a better suggestion for making sure
people update sources.list?
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
"Since phone messaging became popular, the young generation has lost the
ability to read or write anything that is longer than one hundred and sixty
characters." -- Ignatios Souvatzis
Reply to: