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Re: Snes9x and Quake in main



On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 12:08:27AM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 10:58:54PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
>> > Package those things and the packages can move into main. As is, they
>> > depend on "packages that are not in our archive at all" and thus they
>> > belong in contrib.
>> 
>> This is ludicrous. There is a kernel in debian, but it depends on a
>> BIOS. There is no BIOS available in debian. There are hundreds of
>> other examples. There could be a script interpreter without there
>> being packages of code in that language. I could go on and on.
>
>Funny, I remember having this argument less than a month ago.
>When did debian-devel become write-only?

Good, I'm not the only one around here with _deja vu_.  How 'bout them
Raiders? :)

>
>Hamish
>

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