On Mon, 2017-12-04 at 10:34 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> writes: > > > yes, I also agree this would work and be better than the status-quo. > > however I'm inclined to believe doing this and adding a fourth repo, > > non-free-firmware (additionally to main, contrib and non-free) would be > > even better and also not need a GR. > > +1. I think firmware is something conceptually different than non-free > software in general, and it would be good to give users a simple way to > choose to enable non-free firmware without enabling other non-free > software. > > For the discoverability, I would be quite comfortable with putting both > the free and the non-free download links prominantly on the page with the > non-free link going to or closely tied with a page that discusses the > issues, explains why we have this installer even though we don't really > want to, and maybe links to the FSF Respects Your Freedom pages to suggest > a hardware alternative. +1. I end up needing non-free firmware on most bare metal systems, but nothing else from non-free. I never remember how to include it at installation time. And I don't want us to gloss over the fact that it is non-free and therefore not part of the official Debian system. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Lowery's Law: If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
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