Re: On installation media and firmware [Re: New section for firmware]
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > Sure it does; it's a set of the initial media which contains the
> > non-free firmware in *addition* to the normal stuff contained on
> > the fully DFSG-free media. [You'd just need this for CD1, the
> > netinst, business card and cd images, and perhaps the m-a DVD.]
> >
> > The only additional user-facing complexity is the additional media
> > and the need for users to be able to differentiate between the
> > media types.
>
> I cannot make it more clear than this: the debian-boot and debian-cd teams
> are against any such solution.
That's all fine and good, but why?
Don Armstrong
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