Received: from mx1.tetrasec.net (mx1.tetrasec.net [66.245.176.36]) by nld3-dev1.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C26C7782C5B for <~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org>; Wed, 20 Jan 2021 09:25:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.tetrasec.net (mail.local [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.tetrasec.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 236FA180E14; Wed, 20 Jan 2021 09:25:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncopa-desktop.lan (67.63.200.37.customer.cdi.no [37.200.63.67]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: alpine@tanael.org) by mx1.tetrasec.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3868D180E13; Wed, 20 Jan 2021 09:25:20 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 10:25:16 +0100 From: Natanael Copa To: antoniompini Cc: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Subject: Re: Alpine installer firmare detection Message-ID: <20210120102516.7ad1d21e@ncopa-desktop.lan> In-Reply-To: <20210108140340.896c426b55e35994d57dee18@gmail.com> References: <20210108140340.896c426b55e35994d57dee18@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.8 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-alpine-linux-musl) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 14:03:40 -0800 antoniompini wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to suggest a possible improvement to the Alpine installer. > Alpine installs quite a bit of firmware and, after the instalation, I have to get rid of most of it. > Debian installer has a nice script by which it detects and allows to install only the firmware which is really needed. > It works remarkably well, and I haven't found such feature on any other distro. > I think it'd be cool to see this implemented on Alpine, in keeping with the minimalistic approach. yes. This should be relatively straightforward to implement. I didn't have time for the 3.13 release though. (I did start on it though) I suggest that you create an issue for it. -nc