-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/12/2013 05:30 PM, Christopher Head wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:51:15 +0000 (UTC) > Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Yes, of course, I meant please don’t depend unconditionally. A > conditional depend is fine by me, and I don’t care about one random > directory being created—I just don’t want a whole package being pulled > in for nothing. > While much of this thread is un-actionable I believe this is a good idea to do.
What is everyone's opinion of adding a USE=firmware option to pull in PDEPEND="linux-firmware" in linux-2.eclass? Thanks, Zero -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRHyO1AAoJEKXdFCfdEflKV/UQAI3NTvDcGQs7hjzhkecIgxNh 11OLTv43CxLRUg4OeYJppeavxvV//LPIdroVUS2e7GgF3fQ++8HKa5s9xUzi7pmy FoWgzoTG+IeTu7NF6MVMbyLO1hhH59+TEapBn4IFE4Da7qgK+3JrbF7Lx4cpxgnL s7pJxQ2Fvm6x8Bz7NUwi4R1xnYKUJhEvxOJVCtWeChjr8c2u0zHahHnmAs9bdyeF pnE4O7RD4I+lBUNI4kJGVM8EMK31LwFLgfyHkX8mPUyXQ9rA5+ofnxAHRIuV2zEA g1f59f8b46VUy3mAJ296EXz//GZ+KxMtucAAwNLpEHEKoEj4Ypyb7rfQTlsSxUXu kXVpB7bcDah5wT4i++UFpzzTx+wLVUxgOf/idRCUqDB8l2VqSSIqq6yJ+YA3eLoY wCd9wEXR2sHaHxlwYvakMr0na3lAMIopPAM0t/0cwwIJYXlScYw6f5iEUDSo1if6 B+pUw7Hst4XsRWcQpzfjnR3tiKK9U7vTc58blz7pkkZo2cV/+PLlFzQf+WlPaxzU ZRzcxoZnQFDifu/eXLQdVNzIfAuAzCYXiU2Rv3gowmwXlUuCQiyYcYUioCMRwFwt 7yPEXIGsMCX02sjLammF9ZM2RdyKjt/daKc1vMU29aMF/WB8T1nYUKVY/XZmJ+YR YrDEf3MaIKbKoXXRuINy =y/cz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
