At 01:52 PM 8/15/00 -0700, Steve Bowman wrote:
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 01:01:49PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > [snip] > > The strange part is that _some_ contrib packages are scattered > across the 3 CDs, but not all of the packages. For example, lyx > is _not_ there. Only 83 packages are included: I think you'll find that the ones that are missing depend on non-free. Lyx for example depends on libforms0.89 . Apt is used by debian-cd to set up the build and apt doesn't like broken dependencies.
Why would a package be in contrib if it didn't depend on non-free? I thought that that was the current definition of contrib: DFSG-free, but requires something from outside of main (e.g., contrib or non-free).
Steve
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