On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 4:06 AM Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday, 13 July 2019 18:42:27 BST Jack wrote:
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> If linux-firmware is emerged with the savedconfig use flag, then only
> the firmware not deleted from the config file is left. 

Yes.  I used to do this, but gave up after a while.

Kernel 5.3 is getting the ability to load .xz compressed firmware, so /lib/firmware goes from 460MB to under 80MB.