Re: KDE

[<gecko@benham.net>]

On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 11:57:34PM -0500, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> Montreal Tue Mar  2 23:55:16 1999
> 
> Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu> wrote:
> >    What difference does it make?  contrib/ or non-free/ are as good as
> >    main/.  But in this case, I think you're wrong, KDE has been pulled
> >    completely (even though they could have left kdelibs).
> > 
> > contrib and non-free are not as good as main.  They are not part of
> > the Debian distribution.  We tolerate their presence on the ftp for
> > the benefit of our users.
> 
> In practical terms, contrib, non-free and main are just different
> directories.
> 
Not to the CD vendors.  They're different or non-existant CDs..
also, many people won't use these "different directories" for idealogical
reasons.