Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org
On 1999/06/28, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> ruud@ruud.org (Ruud de Rooij) writes:
> > It would mean that main would no longer be self-supporting. If it were in
> > non-US/main, then the us-only main would be a self-supporting distribution,
> as
> > well as main + non-US/main.
>
> non-US/main is part of main and without it you will not have all of
> main. There is no point in sticking something to non-US just for a
> depend, it wouldn't belong there.
It is very frustrating for a beginner to find that the new Debian CD he just
bought has packages on it [s]he can't install.
non-US/main is part of main. Then why do you object to uploading such a
package to non-US/main? In your opinion, it's part of main anyway.
- Ruud de Rooij.
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