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Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org



On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 12:06:52PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 03:49:35PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I think the difference is quite clear if you use dselect or gnome-apt or some
> other user level utility. The people using apt-get and dpkg should have enough
> knowledge to tell the difference between non-free and main...

And if the goal is to have seperate lines in apt, what's preventing
people from listing favoritemirror.debian.org twice: once for free and
once for non-free?

Mike Stone

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