Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:27:42PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Daniel Stone <daniel@kabuki.openfridge.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:37:55PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm talking about people like VMWare, i.e., people who distribute binary
> >> only modules.
>
> > Call *me* a cretin, but wouldn't that be non-free?
>
> > Binary-only modules should be slain. Plus, they've broken so much stuff over
> > the past (do an l-k search for vmware), that they should not be distributed
> > with Debian, the user should have to that myself.
>
> I didn't mean to put the word only up there as VMWare does distribute the
> source of their modules. In any case, binary modules are a fact of life
> I'm afraid.
They still suck, and they're still non-free.
--
Daniel Stone
Linux Kernel Developer
daniel@kabuki.openfridge.net
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