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Re: KDE



On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 11:07:42PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> 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)

You mean the same way they are annoyed by redhat and redhat-contrib
(contrib.redhat.com)?

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Enrique Zanardi					   ezanardi@ull.es


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