On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 16:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > I really wonder why this package is not a dependency of the
> > xserver-xorg-radeon{,hd} packages. If the installation of that package
> > solved that problem for you I will file a bug against the
> > xserver-xorg-video-* packages that "depend" on it.
>
> Packages in 'main' can not depend on packages in 'non-free' (or they
> have to go to 'contrib'), they can only 'suggest' them:
> $ apt-cache show xserver-xorg-video-radeon | grep firmware
> Suggests: firmware-linux
Absolutely true. That point appeared to me right after I send that mail and
had checked where I got 'firmware-linux' from. Thanks for spelling it out
explicitly in this thread.
with kind regards
Wolodja Wentland
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