| johang | have you guys considered changing the kernel packages to not depend on linux-firmware and instead suggest or recommend linux-firwmare? linux-firmware is something like 900 MB. | 21:39 |
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| JanC | johang: ideally there would also be a way to only download firmwares you actually need :) | 21:45 |
| johang | yeah, imagine that | 21:46 |
| JanC | and I think it's 950 MiB by now, probably going to break the 1 GiB barrier soon | 21:47 |
| JanC | you'd still need the whole bunch on install media, of course :-/ | 21:48 |
| johang | not really sustainable. split in linux-firmware-{gpu,wlan,video,other} maybe? | 21:53 |
| johang | when I build a minimal ubuntu image for my embedded board, linux-firmware is more than half of the image. | 21:54 |
| JanC | splitting it up into 4 packages isn't very useful if you need 1 firmware from each of them... | 21:57 |
| johang | if would be useful if split into more than 4. | 22:04 |
| jeremy31 | I think Debian has some split by vendor | 22:06 |
| sarnold | ubuntu tries to keep disks useful enough if you move them from one computer to another; I doubt there'll be much enthusiasm to split the package apart | 22:07 |
| johang | also in debian the firmware packages are only "rec" and not "dep". | 22:08 |
| JanC | I don't think splitting up the packages makes sense when you want to (or have to) install them all anyway, but OTOH having a way to use Ubuntu on small disks does makes sense (even if that means you can't move such disks to another computer--they might not be removable anyway...) | 22:11 |
| sarnold | apply more soldering iron? :) hehe | 22:13 |
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