Re: rms on debian
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:38:09AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:44:55AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I've always had a problem with contrib. I'm not aware of the criteria
> for putting a package in contrib. But it doesn't seem very clear.
It's quite clearly documented:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-contrib
You might want to read that in conjunction with the section above it,
since the rules for contrib are a superset of the rules for main.
> For example I think dosemu is in contrib, even though you can use it to
> run Free Software programs for dos. I've used it with djgpp and emacs.
See bug #101318.
> This applies to a lesser extent to various emulators and game engines.
Those are usually because no free ROMs are available.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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