Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 05:46:07PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: >>This is clearly not appropriate; it is not "perfectly reasonable" to >>install a driver package without the firmware, any more than it is >>reasonable to install a dynamically-linked binary without its shared >>library dependencies. In both cases, the functionality is limited to >>simply imforming the user that a necessary component was not installed. > > Except in the case of a driver that also works on devices that have the > firmware embedded in a ROM chip. Agreed; under those circumstances, a Suggests is quite appropriate, and the driver can go to main, since it can Freely drive at least some hardware. - Josh Triplett
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