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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