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Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd



On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 08:39:36PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Not to me.  As long as these packages had a debconf note that warned of
> the problem, I wouldn't consider it a big deal.  These packages are all
> priority "extra", right?

I checked a handful and they are all optional. Optional seems correct
to me; extra is (from memory) for packages which require add-on hardware
or which conflict with standard or higher priority packages, which
doesn't apply to the emulators.

> OTOH, I don't feel passionately about it, so if people are wedded to the
> concept of the "contrib" distribution, so be it...

Well, the name is misleading but the concept is sound, imho.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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