Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > I managed to compiled because I joyfully discovered that default > Ubuntu installations do install gcc and linux-headers unconditionally.
Noticing a "this laptop worked for me on Ubuntu" page that treated installing necessary out of kernel modules as (rightly) no big deal, and comparing it to general experiences with it being a PITA in a similar situation with Debian was part of my reason for concluding this should be done. Note that if the user installed Debian from a USB stick with no network, they are left with an apt configuration that does not allow apt-get install to work after the installation even if the USB stick is plugged in. This would be nice to fix in general, but leaving the user with everything they are going to need to get a network connection pre-installed is a reasonable workaround for d-i to make. It may make sense to only do it if d-i detects there is no network. At least lack of networking is the most annoying case. This would also give it a rationalle for installing make and gcc. (IIRC discover already installs this stuff if it detects hardware that is supported by out of tree modules packaged in Debian, which it automatically builds from source.) -- see shy jo
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