Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote (Sat, 27 Feb 2021 11:21:58 +0100): > The point is: We separate free and non-free images for a very reason and if > you add a mechanism that just silently enables non-free on a system that > was installed with the free installer, you are defeating this separation.
1. *I* do not do or change anything here. It's the case like this for ages! 2. non-free does *NOT* be *silently* activated! The user is prompted for this, and he needs to explicitly say YES to this option! And this question is only be asked in expert installation mode. > The firmware issue isn't new and the stance has always been that we separate > free and non-free installers for a very reason. People that use the free > installers > expect that the system installed contains DFSG-compatible components only. Firmware issues are not new, that's correct. But with latest kernels, it seems that missing firmware for graphics cards more often than in the past leads to a completely dark or garbled screen (given the amount of user reports, I already mentioned). I guess this is a result of some "policy changing" in the kernel, how to act with firmware blobs and what to do, if firmware is missing (?). > A user wants all firmware to be available after installation, they are advised > to use the non-free firmware installers. Again: even if they decide to use this non-free installer with the graphics-card firmware included, this installer *does*not* install the firmware for graphics cards! (leaving users with a unusable system at first boot.) Only the "switch-to-second-console-and-install-there-by-hand" solution, you mentioned already, can do this. This patch should only be a user-friendly variant of the above second-console solution. Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076