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Bug 614218 - sys-firmware/radeon-ucode and sys-firmware/amdgpu-ucode: Remove packages
Summary: sys-firmware/radeon-ucode and sys-firmware/amdgpu-ucode: Remove packages
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo X packagers
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Keywords: PMASKED
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Reported: 2017-03-29 15:40 UTC by Matt Turner
Modified: 2017-05-29 03:57 UTC (History)
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Description Matt Turner gentoo-dev 2017-03-29 15:40:14 UTC 
These packages are subsets of sys-kernel/linux-firmware (which we do badly, see bug 613746, among others). No point in them existing.
Comment 1 William L. Thomson Jr. 2017-04-08 17:00:24 UTC 
Ideally it would be nice if sys-kernel/linux-firmware had USE flags for all the stuff it installs. I need a small subset and it installs allot and doubles the size of the files on my / partition. Even worse for some systems causes it to fill up root. Without root has plenty of space left and will never get close to maxing out.

I understand it will take work to add such USE flags for all the firmware shipped. Mostly done by vendor, not per firmware flags. This package would become like a radeon USE flag. I also use broadcom stuff, so that could be another. It would still install more firmware than I need, but its less than all of the firmware.
Comment 2 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev 2017-04-08 17:04:27 UTC 
Use linux-firmware USE=savedconfig functionality if this is important for you. Depending on how that works, might miss newer versions of firmware.
Comment 3 Matt Turner gentoo-dev 2017-05-29 03:57:04 UTC 
commit 7df2005c25b0046a63ff03757955190f07a3cedb
Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
Date:   Sun May 28 20:29:15 2017 -0700

    package.mask: Remove mask for dropped radeon-ucode and amdgpu-ucode
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/614218

commit f69369ea6bade89ed36a097cab675d0c49a343fc
Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
Date:   Sun May 28 20:28:30 2017 -0700

    sys-firmware/amdgpu-ucode: Remove package
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/614218

commit 9960002903f3baeca80f065624b5f2986869e5b3
Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
Date:   Sun May 28 20:27:31 2017 -0700

    sys-firmware/radeon-ucode: Remove package
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/614218