(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #13) > (In reply to Dario Faggioli from comment #12) > > Totally agree. What I still don't know (and am trying to figure out) is > > where it is decided what will end up in the install media. > > > > Like, using this issue as an example, why isn't the firmware package there? > > If it's due to the no-recommends thing... Where is it that we set > > "no-recommends" in such a way that is has this effect? > > > > Is it, perhaps, here: > > https://github.com/yast/skelcd-control-MicroOS/blob/master/control/control. > > MicroOS.xml#L100 ? > > Hm, patterns-microos-onlyDVD seems containing kernel-firmware. It looks > specific to MicroOS, so I don't know what's the purpose, though... > Yeah, it really is. > In the normal installation, kernel-firmware is chosen either via the > recommends from kernel-default (or equivalent), or from patterns-media, as > far as I look though the packages So, install-recommends is mandatory in > that case. > We've been discussing (on MicroOS Desktop chat channels) how to deal with this. Enabling soft dependencies is apparently a no go, nor we want firmware-all in there. So I'll probably add the most obvious network firmware packages to the onlyDVD pattern (which definitely includes iwlwifi) and see if this fixes this issue.