Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:37:55PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
>
> > mean by "module builders [...] especially those outside Debian". The
> > people from alsa who do not use Debian (How would they use a
> > debian-package?) or debian-users who no debian-developers (= no
> > @debian.org email-adress)? Pointers to documentation to enlighten me
> > are welcome.
>
> 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.
IMHO.
--
Daniel Stone
Linux Kernel Developer
daniel@kabuki.openfridge.net
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