Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free, Draft 2
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 12:34:52AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> I don't know if the contrib area in Red Hat is organized. The proposed
> non-free area of packages in deb format would probably be.
It already exists in the Debian archive. Moving it out of the Debian
infrastructure would cause all of the Red Hat problems: version
dependency issues, package conflicts, non-policy compliant packages,
and so on.
This has been said before, so I'm going to shut up now.
Julian
P.S. For these very pragmatic reasons, I object to the proposal.
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