On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:22:20PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:48:12AM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: > [fetching firmware on finding hardware which needs it: wget or packaged?] > >> Fetch every time and fetch once. That looks like a difference to me... > > > How could "fetch every time" possibly be acceptable to the SC when "fetch > > once" is not? Are you saying that the "rancid-installer" package could go > > in main, if it re-downloaded and reinstalled the program every time it was > > used? Of course not--there is no difference to the SC. > > I don't believe that I've made any comments about freeness of the firmware > installer package (though I've definitely said things about kernel modules > for devices which, to be useful, require firmware uploads). I merely consider > fetch-every-time to be broken (and you can add "firmware no longer available > for download" to the list of reasons).
Since this is a discussion of freeness and SC#1, it's differences in freeness that are relevant here. In response to "no difference: contrib at best", you said "that looks like a difference", which certainly looks like a comment on freeness. (Unless you do have something to say about freeness, let's let this subthread die; my response said "who cares about implementation details for something which clearly doesn't help the software get out of contrib", and this isn't going anywhere.) > They were relevant to the text which you *didn't* snip. You should have > summarised them or left them in place. > > And you've not marked where you've removed text :-\ When I think some indication of removal is useful, I mark it with a blank line between quotes, instead of ">"; this is clear enough, since the full text is always available. All text in all messages is relevant to other text; not removing text which is relevant to some other quote would mean never removing anything. (As your complaints about my quoting are both frivilous and in a somewhat demanding tone, I doubt I'll respond to them any further.) -- Glenn Maynard