Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
:
: "J.H.M. Dassen" wrote:
:
: > On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 01:27:46 +1000, Shane King wrote:
: > > The pragmatic approach is just as hypocritical, if not more so. You've
: > > basically said it's ok for debian to be pragmatic while telling the users
: > > they should not be pragmatic and instead rely on only software which
: > > conforms to the DFSG. That is hypocricy, pure and simple.
: >
: > > Need I quote the Debian social contract that states:
: > >
: > > "4. Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software"
: >
: > what would you rather have? Pragmatism and working lists or
: > purism and no lists?
:
: Exactly what he's arguing. So why hide the non-free stuff that
: even _we_ use.
Who's hiding it? Are there going to be blackhole routes to
nonfree.debian.org? I don't think so ...
The distinction is being made so that people can see where the software
is coming from, and choose to avoid the non-free stuff if that's what
they want to do.
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