On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:05:29PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > An even simpler, more in-your-face approach would simply be to (ab)use > debconf to put up one of those "informational" dialog boxes saying, > "This is a non-free program. You might want to consider the following > free alternatives: ...". This has the advantage that the user is more > likely to see it (s/he may not look at the package's dependencies), but > the disadvantage that s/he won't see it at all unless and until a > non-free package is installed. Proposals like this will require the cooperation of non-free package maintainers. If they feel it is condescending, insulting, misguided, or whatever to communicate the availability of free alternatives, they will simply refuse to do this. -- G. Branden Robinson | What influenced me to atheism was Debian GNU/Linux | reading the Bible cover to cover. branden@debian.org | Twice. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- J. Michael Straczynski
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