Re: Discussion - non-free software removal

[Nick Phillips <nwp@nz.lemon-computing.com>]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:09:36PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:

> The same people who will never wean *themselves* off of non-essential
> non-free software are the same ones who argue that Debian must never
> stop shipping it as long as there is even one person still using that
> resource.
> 
> In other words, it's a self-serving argument.

Bzzzzt. You lose. Play again sometime ;)

I am constantly trying to wean myself off non-free. Right now I'm down to 4
packages:

acroread 
quake-lib
xearth   
xsnow    

Ahem. Two packages. But given the nearly-zero marginal cost of providing
non-free, I strongly disagree with any proposal which will cause us to make
it no longer available.

I would however be all in favour of making the distinction more obvious,
for example (as someone else mentioned) by making access to non-free
require apt sources lines without the word "debian" in them anywhere.

(How difficult would this be?)


Cheers,


Nick 

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You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier.