linux-vanilla should not depend on linux-firmware
It’s not possible to cherry-pick your firmware packages because linux-vanilla depends on all of linux-firmware. Instead, setup-disks should add linux-firmware to the list of packages to install by default.
(from redmine: issue id 10636, created on 2019-06-30, closed on 2019-06-30)
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