+1 on the proposal as-is; I don't want this side discussion to derail the case, but...
In the unlikely event that anyone is impacted by this, A) is the source for the driver(s) open/available for other distros/individuals to put it back, -or- B) are the driver binaries available in a repo so that they could be re-installed? Maybe what I'm asking is whether we need to remove the driver source from our source tree (like this proposal implies), or if it would be sufficient to simply remove the packages from the core system definition so they are not installed/used by default. Or move the source (et al) to the contrib (or obsolete or ...) repo? Or...? Given the age and systems characteristics of bus mice, this may be a poor test case (and if so, that's OK by me), but, in general, it seems to me that combining "removing old hardware support" and "open source OS used by a long tail of different hardware users" is somewhat of a mismatch. What if your assertion of "not used" is wrong? Can a person affected by the removal /do/ anything about it? -John > Garrett D'Amore - sun microsystems wrote: >> We'd like to EOF these drivers from Solaris Nevada. ?We don't believe this >> will have any negative impact on anyone -- the only impact should be the >> positive result of removing the driver binaries, man pages, and associated >> source code.
