Re: [linux-audio-dev] Request to audio related LiveCD packagers

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Request to audio related LiveCD packagers
From: Takashi Iwai (tiwai_AT_suse.de)
Date: Mon May 03 2004 - 15:17:24 EEST

At Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:47:43 +0200,
Andrea Glorioso wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Frank" == Frank Barknecht <fbar_AT_footils.org> writes:
>
> > Hallo,
> > Paul Davis hat gesagt: // Paul Davis wrote:
>
> >> debian is about to exclude all "non-free" material from their
> >> distributions. this includes firmware, documentation et al.
>
> > Yes, but some of alsa-tools at least aren't "non-free" at all,
> > like env24control.
>
> Wasn't the division between alsa-tools and alsa-firmware done
> explicitly to allow distribution of alsa-tools for distros which
> prefer not to distribute alsa-firmware?

basically it was thought to decrease the size of the package.
firmware data are rarely changed while alsa-tools programs are often
updated. 

--
Takashi Iwai <tiwai_AT_suse.de>		ALSA Developer - www.alsa-project.org

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