On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 07:01 +0100, Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
> On Monday 28 November 2005 22:37, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 21:53 +0100, Matthias Schwarzott wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > If nobody objects I will add DVB_CARDS to USE_EXAPAND on next saturday
> > > (2005/12/03).
> > >
> > > This will be used to decide which firmware-file to download and install
> > > within the to be created media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware ebuild.
> >
> > What will the ebuild do if DVB_CARDS is not set?
> >
> > Please make it download/install them all.
> 
> No problem making the default installing all.
> 
> (That means around ~60Mb download for the whole packet which makes it a bit 
> uncomfortable for users. Installed are just the ~2Mb of firmware files. Most 
> firmware files are contained in driver-files which are around 10mb per 
> driver/firmware file (extracted firmware file is only some kb) but must not 
> be extracted and mirrored cause of license.
> Before being sure I have to check the licenses inside these driver archives. 
> Up to now I have not found a license file inside every archive.)

The main thing is if it is ever included into a release or binary
package, it should work on all systems.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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