ndisgtk/ndiswrapper on the install images

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday, November 09, 2012 09:34:37 PM Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> On 8 November 2012 15:10, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov at ubuntu.com> 
wrote:
> > On 7 November 2012 12:55, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov at ubuntu.com> 
wrote:
> >> As part of the ongoing goal to remove python2 from the installation
> >> media [1] ndisgtk was identified to still be using python2, pygtk and
> >> python-glade2.
> >> 
> >> Are there plans to port ndisgtk to python3, pygi and gtkbuilder ?
> >> Is ndisgtk still needed? Or can ubuntu-drivers-common take over this
> >> functionality.
> >> 
> >> Would it be acceptable to drop the ndisgtk (GUI, not the command line
> >> ndiswrapper-utils) from the install images?
> >> The current instructions/documentation for ndiswrapper do list both
> >> ndisgtk and command line way of installing windows drivers. [2]
> >> 
> >> I do want to question the need for ndiswrapper on the install media in
> >> recent years: (i) given that all major computer manufacturers ship
> >> ubuntu pre-installed and (ii) preferred way to get the windows driver
> >> is over the network [2] (iii) and the steps to manually retrieve
> >> windows drivers from a windows installation are harder to follow than
> >> ndiswrapper command-line instructions.
> > 
> > It turns out that ndiswrapper linux kernel module was dropped, as far
> > back as during precise development or possibly before that.
> > At the time ndiswrapper module was dropped, ndiswrapper-dkms was not
> > seeded.
> > 
> > I have now opened a bug to drop bogus provides:ndiswrapper from the
> > linux kernel [3].
> > 
> > And I would like to raise a merge proposal to ubuntu seeds to do one of:
> > * to drop ndiswrapper-common, ndiswrapper-utils-1.9, ndisgtk from all
> > seeds
> > * seed ndiswrapper-dkms
> 
> These are now dropped from all ubuntu flavours, by consensus.
> 
> I have also raised a merge proposal to do similar drop for 12.04.2 on
> ubuntu only. As this will give a tiny bit of space on the cd.

Good point.  I've made this change for Kubuntu as well as we landed just 
slightly oversize for 12.04.1.

Scott K