Right, and as I mention apt says firmware-linux-nonfree was manually installed, but I don't recall installing it. It says it isn't a dependency for anything else, so it wasn't installed as a dependency when I installed something else. In addition to my not remembering installing firmware-linux-nonfree, wouldn't it have required me to add the non-free repository to have installed it in the first place?
Sorry if we're getting off track here but I honestly don't recall installing anything nonfree on this machine. On Thu, 2020-01-09 at 21:43 +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > On Thursday 09 January 2020 at 21:40:16, 'smee via Dng wrote: > > > On Thu, 2020-01-09 at 21:29 +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > > > On Thursday 09 January 2020 at 21:25:51, 'smee via Dng wrote: > > > > "i firmware-linux-nonfree Depends firmware-misc-nonfree (= > > > > 20161130-3)" > > > > > > No, that's not itself :) Thats' "firmware-LINUX-nonfree" :) > > > > aah I see. apt shows firmware-linux-nonfree was manually installed, > > I > > don't recall ever installing it, in fact I thought I had > > successfully > > avoided installing anything nonfree in devuan on this machine. So I > > thought it must be a dependency itself, but aptitude why shows no > > dependencies. > > "i firmware-linux-nonfree Depends firmware-misc-nonfree" means that > firmware- > linux-nonfree is installed, and depends on firmware-misc-nonfree, > which is > therefore the reason why firmware-misc-nonfree is itself installed. > > It reduces the question instead to "why is firmware-linux-nonfree > installed?" > > > Antony. > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
