Also trying to answer the questions of Juerg which all were good ones.
> Why is the size problematic?
On one hand the derivative bugs Rolf already quoted like bug 1951422 and
bug 1951423.
But disk space is only a small aspect of it as of today IMHO.
Where density matters (virtual systems) firmwa
Are you kidding download 500 Mb if someone changed one line in some
config ?
I reverted to debian because of this.
You are mad.
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The linux-firmware package in jammy grew considerably and is now almost
1GB in size.
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split some large, lesser-used firmware files into -e
Juerg, thank you for picking this up and my apologies for the late
response.
You are of course right that there is no scientific answer or approach
to this question. I'd simply look at the biggest directories with ncdu
and make a decision if I thought that hardware was common when going
down the
Why is the size problematic? And how do you define less common HW? Where
do you draw the line? Some HW might not be common for you but is for
others. I'm sympathetic to the request but it's not trivial to find the
right balance without upsetting/breaking existing users.
** Also affects: linux-firm
** Tags added: kern-2009
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