Restricted modules installed for everyone? (Was: Re: kernel^W linux upgrade via apt)

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 06.01.2005, 22:14 -0800 schrieb Daniel Robitaille:
> While I can guess that from a technical point of view it's probably
> the easier way of doing it, I find that from a more ideological point
> of view  it is a bit disturbing (maybe disturbing is a too strong of a
> word...) that these non-free modules are installed by default for
> everyone on some architectures.  Is there a way to install them (maybe
> via a install-time setting/question) only for the users actually
> needing them to try to minimize the number of non-free packages on a
> typical default ubuntu installation?
there is a Hardware Database in the works which should solve the problem
once enough data is collected. 
since the collection part will go to hoary there can be a script in
hoary+1 to decide if your system needs these modules or not....once
there is enough data in the DB this will be an easy task.

https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HardwareDatabase

ciao
	oli

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