From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2731A138350 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2020 21:44:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6BC06E0885; Fri, 7 Feb 2020 21:44:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 18D0DE0858 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2020 21:44:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-io1-f49.google.com (mail-io1-f49.google.com [209.85.166.49]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mattst88) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0119D34E8D0 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2020 21:44:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-io1-f49.google.com with SMTP id k24so1150797ioc.4 for ; Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:44:10 -0800 (PST) X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAX0p0S4/XaZWSCsIfNGo8Hpuqi8ipycXVVMi3yN4nXufi/4TjTn amytHY2aATIK2szc0vMaXB2Uuktxj3LpbOWqK8g= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqxbdLj0CPghFkbybISXPhVT/tM38vjvMABotdrYG9PdouJcqbL5AJDePz6ovYO7/huH8MgseWVzv4ot3FpMDGc= X-Received: by 2002:a6b:fe0f:: with SMTP id x15mr449900ioh.219.1581111848972; Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:44:08 -0800 (PST) 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20200207171038.GA24571@woodpecker.gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: From: Matt Turner Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 13:43:57 -0800 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode To: gentoo development Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 921308e6-f411-4ecb-8a5a-17b03398c450 X-Archives-Hash: 35acb68aefb03360362d2fd16c9739ba On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 12:44 PM Alexander Tsoy wrote: > > 7 =D1=84=D0=B5=D0=B2=D1=80=D0=B0=D0=BB=D1=8F 2020 =D0=B3. 22:50:13 GMT+03= :00, Matt Turner =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: > >On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 11:39 AM Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >> > >> >>>>> On Fri, 07 Feb 2020, Matt Turner wrote: > >> > >> > On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 9:10 AM Mike Pagano > >wrote: > >> >> > >> >> # Mike Pagano (2020-02-07) > >> >> # The standalone ebuild for this driver is made > >> >> # unnecessary as it is included in the package: > >> >> # sys-kernel/linux-firmware > >> >> sys-firmware/iwl6050-ucode > >> > >> > How about all the others as well? > >> > >> > sys-firmware/iwl1000-ucode > >> > sys-firmware/iwl3160-7260-bt-ucode > >> > sys-firmware/iwl3160-ucode > >> > sys-firmware/iwl6005-ucode > >> > sys-firmware/iwl6030-ucode > >> > sys-firmware/iwl7260-ucode > >> > sys-firmware/iwl8000-ucode > >> > >> I had asked the same question back in November, but an argument > >against > >> it was that sys-kernel/linux-firmware is quite a monster. In the > >default > >> configuration, its installation footprint is 515 MiB. > > > >Oh yeah. The thread where the person arguing for keeping them didn't > >know about USE=3Dsavedconfig :) > > USE=3Dsavedconfig is very inconvinient, especially for a package that can= introduce new firmware files for the same hardware. Adding support for mas= ks would improve that a bit. Agreed. Mask/wildcard support would solve that problem well.