Re: Firmware GR result - what happens next?
On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 05:17:59PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> 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.
>
> I'd prefer failing loudly to failing silently.
>
I'd prefer if we could make things work vs making things fail, however loudly.
Cheers,
Julien
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