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by yakubin 1359 days ago
> So this is only for the installer, right?

According to the Debian wiki description of this option[1]: "Where non-free firmware is found to be necessary, the target system will also be configured to use the non-free-firmware component by default in the apt sources.list file."

> The software that is not needed for basic functionality will not be installed permanently, right?

I'm not sure I understand you right. Unless the software is needed, the installer won't load it. And I'm not sure what you mean by "basic functionality" here, but the way I read the Debian pages it's about loading everything needed for the hardware to be fully-operational (or as close to it as is possible).

[1]: <https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003#texte>