Re: KDE

[David Frey <david@eos.lugs.ch>]

>My opinion... put all free binaries and dynamicly linked 'contribs'
>into main.  Put all staticly linked contrib binaries into non-free. 
>Eliminate contrib.  Flag the problem binaries somehow. Put ALL free
>source in main.  And gently pressure all writers of 'free' software
>that require non-free libs to switch libs (or write free clone libs. 
>Bravo Lesstiff!)  

The main point why we have contrib (in this context), is to have a 
self-contained distribution (main) which can be rebuilt/ported to 
other architectures/OSses with only tools in main.

Your suggestion would blur up this distiction, which is bad.

David
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