Matthew Garrett wrote: > In the firmware case, the choice is rather different. At present, the > choice is not between free firmware or non-free firmware. The choice is > between non-free firmware on disk or non-free firmware in ROM. Putting > drivers in contrib penalises the former, and as a result implicitly > encourages the latter. What penalisation specifically results from putting a driver in contrib? I can think of a few things but am not sure I've hit all the relevant points: - Contrib is no longer added to sources.list per default. Perhaps this should be re-re-examined. - Software in contrib is not currently includable in d-i. However, if you need non-free firmware anyway, which couldn't be in a d-i image in any case, you need some add-on media anyway, probably a driver disk, which could easily include the contrib firmware and driver too. Or you need a special non-free build of the installer, which is doable, I think. -- see shy jo
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