Re: Having a non-free and a non-cd branch?
On Jun 27, Igor Grobman decided to present us with:
>
> Some time around Sat, 27 Jun 1998 20:54:32 EDT,
> Dan Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Actually, I think there would be merit to this. The problem with
> > shipping contrib on CDs is that by definition contrib packages can
> > depend on non-free packages - so basically, the CD does not contain
> > every package depended on by other packages. We can't always resolve
> > that, but where we can, we should.
>
> But we don't want to spend our efforts trying to separate the "cd-ok" packages
> only to find out later that whoever did the work did not do it well enough for
> us not to get sued.
Effort? Just create a new dist that is non-free-but-CD-OK (maybe
the hardest part is coming up with a good name, but then contrib
already sucks). Next time a maintainer of a non-free package
wants to make an upload, this maintainer will likely _want_ to
check if the package is CD-OK, and then upload it to CD-OK
instead of non-free. That simple.
Of course, when slink is released, a lot of stuff that should
have been moved to CD-OK will remain in non-free, but so what?
In time this will fix itself... ;-)
DISCLAIMER: not that I support the idea. I'm neither for it or
against it. But I think "effort" isn't a valid argument against,
either.
[]s,
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