On 5/11/22 03:48, Paul Wise wrote:
On Tue, 2022-05-10 at 14:30 -0600, Sam Hartman wrote:So let's assume that at least all those packages can move to non-free-firmware.For backwards compatibility, I think that the firmware component is going to need to be a subset of non-free; i.e. packages are going to need to be *copied* not moved from non-free to the firmware component, which means they would be available from both non-free components.
A work around would be to have some automation to check if non-free is activated, and (propose to) update the sources.list automatically to add non-free-firmware. I'd prefer doing this, as having copies of the same package in both non-free and non-free-firmware is (IMO) a mess.
Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)