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Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem



On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:51:58PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > You also need to turn this question around and ask it the other way:
> > does having these drivers in contrib actually hurt anything?
> 
> Yes. It currently means that we can't ship an installer with support for
> this hardware, because we don't use material from contrib and non-free
> by default.

Putting these drivers into main instead of contrib would not alter
this, because it still wouldn't work without non-free. Any *practical*
difference?

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