On 17/01/2021 05:03, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Nothing immediate for the former, but for the latter, you may want to >> look at the 'vrms' package. > Yes, I use that as well. But that's an "opt-in", and it's rather crude > (and operates after the fact). I think Debian would benefit from having > this kind of mechanism be much more "in your face" (and more > informative/educational). It would make it more acceptable (to me, > anyway) to distribute install-media with non-free firmwares, knowing that > those firmware won't be enabled silently). In theory, I imagine it would be possible to make some sort of hook for apt here. That is, in the same way that apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges fire off before apt runs and as "Are you still sure you want to install these packages?", it might be possible to do the same with vrms. Oh, yes, here's a wishlist bug from 2014 requesting this functionality: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=742854 > >> On my system (and I believe by default), it's set up with a monthly cron >> job to send an E-mail with the output of the program. I review that list >> every time, and there's rarely anything I feel I can clean up from the >> list, but it has happened a time or two. To the best of my recollection, >> I've never yet felt the need to run the program by hand. > FWIW, I only ever run it by hand. I can't remember disabling any > monthly cron job nor receiving any email from it, OTOH. I guess it > somehow guessed that I'd prefer to run it by hand ;-) > > > Stefan >
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