Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat
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.
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