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Re: Why does Debian distributed firmware not need to be Depends: upon? [was Re: LCC and blobs]



su, 2005-01-09 kello 16:52 +0100, Miguel Gea Milvaques kirjoitti:
> Then if software as xpdf could be in main, software loading firmware
> must be in main.

Without commenting on the issue otherwise: This is not a working
analogy. xpdf can load any PDF file. Device drivers can, typically, only
load firmwares that are specific to the device in question, and the only
existing firmwares for the devices tend to be non-free.

(Reply-To set to -project, since this is more on-topic there than here.)



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