Re: Kernel compiling....
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 07:55:39PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote:
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> Horms wrote:
> :: On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 08:42:07PM +0200, Marco Calviani wrote:
> :::: maximilian attems wrote:
> :::::: dilinger is member of the debian kernel team.
> :::::: if you'd not trust him, you'd better watch his commits?
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> :::: You're right i'm questioning this, since i've also written
> :::: to him about this, he's nice and friendly! No, my question
> :::: was something in principle: are we going to have it as a
> :::: official package?
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> [...]
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> :: 3. In the mean time anyone who needs those drivers has to
> :: tediously search the internet and find a message like
> :: this one linking to the URL, or use the Kernel.Org
> :: kernel. Clearly this sux and I sympathise with
> :: complaints about it, even though I am a member of the
> :: team that has created this mess.
>
> Just my 0.02 cents. :)
>
> Do you believe that a README.non-free in the "DFSG"
> kernel, or some tip in pre-install (debconf) would help?
I believe that this is already documented, but if not,
yes documentation is the key.
> And another idea, dilinger could upload the packages
> to people.d.o, it can avoid the problem of uncertain about
> his Debian membership.
>
> Just "freedom" ideas. :-)
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Horms
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