Re: rms on debian
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:13:08AM +0100, Jo?o Miguel Neves wrote:
> From my point of view, the issue with debian and non-free software has
> less to do with the non-free repository, and more with installers. You
> can find a bunch of them by doing:
>
> apt-cache search installer
>
> These are free packages that install non-free software. The means that
> even if you don't have any user installed code on the machine you may
> have non-free software installed (that's just one of the why vrms will
> give you an incomplete picture).
Those installer packages are still in contrib, though, not main. If you
don't want non-free software there's a good chance that you won't want
to include contrib in sources.list either.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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