On Saturday 22 March 2008 22:00:46 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Thanks for stepping forward with this.
Wouldn't it be better to change the spec file so that the firmware you
have removed is moved into a sub package and we can retain the same
kernel? The default setup will install both these packages and If you
want a spin without the firmware, you just need to exclude the sub
package (along with any other packages you don't want). The advantage is
that it doesn't have the overhead of maintaining a additional kernel
package.
How far along are we on automatic hardware detection? Is it possible for
anaconda to check a list of hardware that requires these addition drivers,
and only install them as needed (possibly with a message? That might scare
new users though...)? It wouldn't take more than a few extra lines of code
in anaconda, since the number of entries in that list would number in the
thousands, if even that much, and a simple linear search would be enough.
This approached may be more amicable with our goal of being a free software
system...
-- Ben
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