On May 27, 2008, Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: > You are largely ignoring the infrastructure around installation and > upgrades of multiple kernels. I realize there may be work in anaconda that's not as simple as the approach recently taken by BLAG (a kernel package that's empty, and only Requires: kernel-libre), but do you have anything else in mind? Maybe configuring yum to retain a sufficient number of kernel-libre packages installed and avoid removing the running version from under itself? grepping for PAE, debug, xen et al should make these quite easy to locate this and any others, and extend them to kernel-libre. Once it's done, I guess it's even more negligible than the effort I currently put into Linux-libre. No biggie. > If the goal is allowing users to > install and use a system without any of the non-free firmware > (assuming that's even plausible for our hypothetical user), http://www.blog.tdobson.net/node/172 may be quite enlightening for the FUD-slingers who oppose this kind of move. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
