RE: Debian Sparc 3.0r2 on Ultra60
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:36:57 +0200, Jurzitza, Dieter wrote:
> seing this pop up every other time: is there a real good reason (apart
> from saving some kilobytes of harddisk-space) to not include afbinit in
> the sparc-distribution and to not automatically install it?
The good reason is that it's already in the archive.
$ madison afbinit
afbinit | 1.0-1 | stable | source, sparc
afbinit | 1.0-1 | testing | source, sparc
afbinit | 1.0-1 | unstable | source, sparc
However it's in contrib because non-free microcode needs to be downloaded
to make it work.
> Every newbee will fall over this (happened to me, too ...). I know in
> the meantime that there is a hint in the bugtrack, but to find it you
> have to know what you are looking for ...
It's a tough situation because of the licensing problem. I'm not sure of a
good place where a little README should go.
--
Joshua Kwan
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