Re: Non-free, Contrib and CDs (Was Re: GNU Win32? Not anymore.)
Lalo Martins writes:
> > Perhaps something like the following:
> >
> > On a Debian FTP site or mirror (US and Non-US):
> > Debian-X.Y --> codename
> > codename/
> > Debian-X.Y/ # main distribution
> > Non-US/ # would be empty, or README only, in U.S.
> > No-profit/ # no resale for profit
> > ... # the rest of the stuff from above
> >
> > The subdirs below codename/ would all have a consistent structure
> > (source, doc, binary-{arch}, etc).
>
> Not exactly. Debian-X.Y/*/ are still split into sections, while others have
> packages directly. What about: (for ftp, CDs, user's local systems alike)
No. What we currently have apart from 'main' is 'contrib' and
'non-free', both of which recently got sectionning; this is a really
*good* thing, and I think all new dists should be built this way.
> This can make it hard to burn non-official CDs, I don't know - but it's
> consistent, and consistence is one of the reasons I use Debian in the first
> place.
I don't consider consistent, as non-free and main would be organized
quite differently (the difference seems at least quite important to
me!)
Regards,
--
Yann Dirson <dirson@univ-mlv.fr>
http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson
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