Christopher Head posted on Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:38:14 -0800 as excerpted: > On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:43:02 +0100 Dirkjan Ochtman <d...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Fabio Erculiani <lx...@gentoo.org> >> wrote: >> >> +1 from me; I've had a few machines break on kernel upgrades because >> >> I didn't have the proper firmware installed (I guess older kernel >> >> sources came with the firmware?).
>> > For starters, if kernel sources provide /lib/firmware, how do you >> > deal with file collisions? > > Please don't make kernel sources RDEPEND on firmware. The kernel DOES > NOT depend on firmware to work properly. Well over half my machines > prove that: they work perfectly fine (read: 100% of their hardware > works) with no firmware at all installed. Not a problem as long as the RDEPEND is under USE=firmware or similar. No USE=firmware, no rdepend! =:^) Kernel sources providing /lib/firmware itself shouldn't be a problem either, as that's just a dir, which many packages may own. The individual firmware files would be a problem, but the USE=firmware RDEPEND solution should solve that. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
