On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 06:57:16PM -0500, Navindra Umanee wrote: > > I'm increasingly starting to think that we should do something about > > that. Debian *only* consists of main, contrib and non-free are only > > there to support users (and ourselves). Debian slink has somewhat over > > 1500 packages, not over 2000 as I hear all to many people say. > > Do what? I don't think it would be very smart. > > > Apparently we're not making the distinction between DFSG-free and > > other software as obvious/noticable enough as we should.. > > The people who want to make the distinction, do. If you notice, I > said "practical terms". Do you want to make it impractical to install > contrib and non-free software? I think Wichert is a little more reasonable than RMS in this area.. =p Just because RMS wants us to completely divorce non-free and hide it from our users doesn't mean we'll do just that. We can reorganize the ftp site it a sane manner to emphasize the difference between main and not main without going to extremes to hide choices from our users. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! To boldly go where no bunch of geeks have gone before :) --Joel Klecker
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