On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 05:10:21AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > 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. > > Is it problematic to use virtual domains and a symlink tree to hide non-free > under some hostname, for Free Software advocats? I believe it problematic from the perspective of not hiding things from our users, but I would agree that moving non-free to a different location under the debian tree is a good idea. Note I say under the debian tree because moving it outside the tree really is going to annoy those who muirror Debian in places like /pub/linux/distributions/debian (along with redhat, slackware, et al) -- 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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