Re: apt-get install wordperfect?
There use to be a star office isntaller deb and a netscape installer deb.
they required you download the tars from the vendors, but once you did,
they would install them for you. Maybe this functionality could be
abstracted, and a vnedor need only fill in a few fields? Just thoughts :)
Andrew Lenharth
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On Wed, 26 May 1999, James Mastros wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 08:01:27PM -0500, Mark Mealman wrote:
> > Is it possible for commercial software to make it into the Debian
> > archives(presumably in non-free)?
> [...]
>
> I'd tend to agree with the feeling in the above (apt-able archives of
> non-(DFSG)-free but (beer)-free are a Good Thing), but don't like the idea
> of Debian doing it -- it just dosn't seem like your (Caveat empator: I am
> not a debian-developer (yet)) place, and it almost certianly wasn't the idea
> of the people donating server space/bandwidth to be hosting commercial
> software. Perhaps all we need to do is write a nice easy
> commercial-software-packaging HOWTO, complete from writing a workable
> package (which dosn't have to comply with debain policy, making it /really/
> easy) to creating a nice place to put them with a Packages.gz.
>
> Make it trivial for the commercial people to let their customers use apt's
> slickness, and perhaps they will... and we certianly wouldn't mind.
>
> -=- James Mastros
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