[gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs due lack of time

[Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:42:11 +0100
Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I would justify it through keeping things split and bit-exact clean,
> instead of tightly integrated.
> 
> Separate ebuilds mean that:
> 
> - each firmware has proper license,
> 
> - each firmware can be installed separately and it is _clean_ which
>   firmwares are actually installed (think of binpkgs),
> 
> - each firmware can be upgraded when it needs to be (alternatively: all
>   firmwares are re-installed over and over again when new firmware is
>   added).
> 
> And I wouldn't mind having even 200 sys-firmware/ packages. And don't
> tell me that firmwares change every month, these are particularly
> maintenance-free packages.
> 
> And I don't mind having meta-packages for lazy people.
> 
> Although I believe that having a few 'group' packages for firmwares
> will be 'acceptable'. Assuming those firmwares share a common license.

I very much agree with all of this.  It would be nice if we could keep the
individual firmware packages but just have them be a wrapper that depends on
linux-firmware and ensures that the required files get installed (maybe by
adding them to the savedconfig if it finds they aren't there).  Yes, there are
several problems with that idea, I know.


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