From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44FBF138A38 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:29:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84FBAE0230; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:29:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 98A66E0160 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.107.2] (144.sub-75-192-17.myvzw.com [75.192.17.144]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zerochaos) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7B0C433E399 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:29:34 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <511D6561.8040909@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:29:53 -0500 From: "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130128 Thunderbird/17.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite: Firmware cleanup, part #1 References: <5117560B.3090709@gentoo.org> <511805F0.9070101@gentoo.org> <511B97A8.6090904@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <511B97A8.6090904@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 83edf7eb-549d-473d-b517-08debf8c1e23 X-Archives-Hash: a29837760fdf5fc037772f5cbfc65bc1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRHWVhAAoJEKXdFCfdEflKwOsP/0sN6yzi1e/yCfAfkEyVd4Z8 VcUIF6YiRlg605jqAmUtBiD8HQtgQC4XokyIt8EThV6ppco98D7LY5s2NPWUZrJu SWukKLPuwiNmf+SKM7GkJfKygHTptyaxJy6KG1YnhaOgZz1KjnoatH7jMmevasOa TX7y91BH1EqDDvQgFtkYPtR/9+Ex48ykqb5kayBHGfm9ntFoGIcOaLBnwE8+zIS1 oh9OEsyz2PxsgzAdrfW6wAV8zM1Ytx4hjo20H+Skslb6qDcB2eOAqWb7XmVuB8jF 2Qle/WeDluj9Ly0aogMpZM5TV524eHvxR/hwNMnV9KZIwd/EOCVt0EJAL5e2GhtJ 28r25Zrwib8t2rBUzwGLKtunaNhGZbCM+HYgOpD0P0NgoMpCFX/q6GvNj3CP3uyd MGp/X3BHBjyzTpOat8d22S6cpjlkjAgVQMCVnBvW1ZhAF7SuHvetZn7xm6v+85ci iIsb57RwHgBFEIdq72INQv6TXGt3E95DAxxFxDoxexdv487qSAYJQaqY0calKLGk IdrQZgvE3wAKFSwfpKBPCZSx+3zZKSHooQUJALwr5eHFkwnbMec49W7XDYba7/qt Sw1ihOz4eb+njR0N2oFGb1N9pYshABIF7+TtNSQcYYeagHZkTFpiK8JEC2BkV3Oq mPsmzVkPWcgjCJ7s2CdU =FknU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----