Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free
Contrib is more than just packages that depend on non-free. Possible
solutions for that problem, though, have been outlined in -project.
Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 01:05:00AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > > mentioning contrib in ANY debian document implies debian knows about and
> > > endorses non-free, by proxy.
> > If you would like us to remove contrib as well, feel free to submit a
> > separate call for a General Resolution.
>
> Oh, and removing non-free pretty-well makes contrib worthless: either
> contrib packages will not have the appropriate Depends: lines for
> various libraries they might need, or if they do, user's will have to
> go out of their way to meet those dependencies (since `make install'
> in an upstream source generally doesn't update dpkg's database).
>
> Cheers,
> aj
>
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