On 2011-01-07, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 04:38:57PM +0000, Philipp Kern wrote: >> On 2011-01-07, Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> wrote: >> > squeeze will have googleearth-package, it was unblocked yesterday. >> It won't have a googleearth package, though. >> And it will have literally about 17200 packages in main on i386. And >> about 15580 source packages. They come with a free license, too. And >> have figuratively millions of users, I'm sure of it. And hey, it will >> even release with firmware-linux-nonfree, keeping our non-favourite >> hardware components working, and it only has half the userbase of >> firmware-linux-free! > [...] > Note that firmware-linux-free is recommended by linux-image-* therefore > installed by default in squeeze, while firmware-linux-nonfree is merely > mentioned in a debconf prompt on upgrade if it appears to be needed by > the new version of a module that is currently loaded.
Ah, thanks. > This means that firmware-linux-nonfree is unlikely to be installed if not > needed. If you were to add in some of the other firmware packages > (-atheros, -bnx2, -iwlwifi, -ralink, -realtek) you would see an even > larger fraction. This is unfortunate but not hugely surprising to me. Popcon as linked from the PTS helpful lists all the binary packages. Does it get pulled in if non-free is activated during installation? I.e. is there something scanning the hardware again looking at what's needed post-install? (Assuming that you get around installing it without those.) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrniiel22.hm1.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de