Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: Firmware cleanup, part #1

["Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" <zerochaos@gentoo.org>]

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On 02/13/2013 08:39 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina schrieb:
>> Having 300 -firmware packages is silly.
> 
> I can't help but noticing that some of the recently introduced iwlwifi
> firmware packages came from Chromium OS. So there seems to be interest
> in individual packages from downstreams over the linux-firmware package.
> 
I think we all agree savedconfig isn't an ideal implementation, if we
were able to offer something better I don't think downstream would be
clamoring to add more packages to maintain.

Not that I personally have any idea how to improve the situation. I like
the idea of use_expand but that seems to get ugly really fast.

- -ZC
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