On Mon, 12 Jun 2017, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Of course—for the under 100K being saved here, only Rube Goldberg would > approve.
It is a bit less than 1MiB saved on an AMD system when you purge intel-microcode, but even that is likely to not be considered worth the cost of the extra (empty) cpu-microcode-all package. Besides, it is not like these packages waste valuable resources when installed on a system they don't support, either: by default, once installed, they detect the processor vendor and go inactive when it doesn't match the one they are for. That said, if anyone provides a compelling reason to switch to the cpu-microcode-all + virtual cpu-microcode scheme (as in: give examples of how the behavior changes on widely used package managers), and gets the buy-in from the firmware-nonfree package, I will deploy it for amd64-microcode and intel-microcode. -- Henrique Holschuh
