[Alexandre Oliva] > Say, if these drivers that require non-Free firmware *were* shipped > as separate packages (for whatever reason), would they really belong > in main, rather than in contrib?
Now you've hit on it. If they were packaged _separately_, the drivers that are non-functional without the firmware files would not go in main. But so long as linux-2.6 is one big package, the Depends relationship does not make sense - this is why we have the weaker relationships Recommends and Suggests. And we do not require main to be a closure across Suggests. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]