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Re: Going ahead with non-free-firmware



On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 11:00 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:

> Just in non-free-firmware.  This means users will have to update their
> sources.list, but they will have to do so anyway[1].

Hmm, that is going to be annoying. It also seems strange because
non-free firmware is a subset of all non-free rather than a disjoint
set.

> There are at least two reasons for this: having a package in two
> locations means one has to keep track of them so every action like
> removing or adding it to a suite has to be done in sync.  Also dak
> splits the pool/ directory by component[2]: having the same package in
> two components means file duplications (though firmware probably is
> quite small).

So, code limitations in dak, meh.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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