On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 07:37:22PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > vorlon@debian.org wrote: > >True enough. I have a harder time justifying to myself keeping such drivers > >in main, but I also think that the infrastructure needed in order to support > >grabbing firmware out of non-free (for things like the installer) could > >easily work for the case of contrib driver + non-free firmware as well. > No, because in many situations the users would only need to copy the > firmware binary from media they already have, and installing a package > from a different archive (and even more a new udeb) requires more work > for them and for us. I imagine this firmware blob needs to be extracted outside of the installer, and made available on a floppy. Is adding step 3, grab the small udeb file misc-driver-foo.udeb from http://... and copy it to the floppy next to the firmware, that much more work from the user's POV? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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