On Mar 22, 2008, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for stepping forward with this. NP, sorry that it took me so long to get to it. > Wouldn't it be better to change the spec file so that the firmware you > have removed is moved into a sub package and we can retain the same > kernel? Err... This would mean that whoever distributes the kernel binaries would be required to ship the corresponding sources containing non-Free Software, which is precisely the sort of thing I'd like to avoid, such that I and others who refuse to distribute non-Free Software can promote Fedora at least to some extent. > The advantage is that it doesn't have the overhead of maintaining a > additional kernel package. This overhead is mostly unavoidable, and in general removing the offending modules is much easier than separating the firmware out of them. Hopefully having them removed will at least serve as an incentive for those who'd like to have them included to split them out such that the firmware can be supplied separately. I don't think I'd have the time to do that myself. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
