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Author: Daniel Reurich
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To: irrwahn35, dng
Subject: Re: [Dng] straw poll, non-free firmware for installers
Urban, Anto

It's only a convenience thing for the net-installer as it's a real pain
to have to go hunting for a third party iso just to get the installer
running becuase of a network card requiring non-free firmware.

I think it would be good to warn and give an option of installing the
non-free firmware.

Code submissions of course are welcome :D

Daniel.

On 03/06/15 22:15, Irrwahn wrote:
> +1 for making this an option in the installer, deselected by default.
>
> I like the idea of having a means to explicitly opt-in for non-free
> firmware at install time for convenience, but not such firmware being
> forced into the installation. The freedom of choice thingy, revisited.
>
> Cheers,
> Urban
>
> Anto wrote on 03.06.2015 11:48:
>> On 03/06/15 10:37, Daniel Reurich wrote:
>>> I'd like a straw poll on whether we should include non-free firmware
>>> in our installers by default.
>>
>> I prefer that all non-free packages including the firmwares to be
>> excluded in the default installer. However, it would be great if there
>> were options to select them during installation process. Otherwise, I
>> will choose them later after the base installation is completed, which I
>> usually do.
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