Re: Why the GR is not necessary

[Stephen Frost <sfrost@mail.snowman.net>]

On 9 Jun 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:

> Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com> writes:
> 
> > According to Thomas Bushnell, BSG:
> > > 1) Currently many poeple (as evinced by this very flame war) think
> > >    that non-free is part of Debian.  How can we prevent the average
> > >    new user from getting this impression?
> > 
> > Rename "main" to "debian".
> 
> I don't think that works; as long as the default sources.list contains
> all three parts, the average user will not see the names much at all.

	So change that.  Make it so that non-free has a 'readme' or
similar in it that apt/dpkg picks up on and displays to the user whenever
a package is installed from there.

		Stephen