John Goerzen wrote: > in your sources.list. BTW, you do realize that I maintain non-free packages > myself, right? I maintain 50 debian pkgs (with 8 more in the new queue). Five of these packages are in non-free. > You still have yet to point out how this actually hurts people. I am against the proposal. To my thinking, the detriment is significantly greater than any improvment. Here's how I think it actually hurts people: Users can no longer apt-get non-free packages from the debian mirrors which are already in their sources.list. Each person wanting to use contrib or non-free would have to manually edit their file. In my experience, there is a significant reluctance for users to add non-official repositories to their source.list. I also maintain 5 contrib packages. These pkgs could no longer expect to have their non-free dependencies automatically downloaded from a Debian mirror. To my think, this GR takes away significantly while returning, though some benefit, very little in comparison. -- Kevin Rosenberg | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** http://b9.com/debian.html | : :' : The universal GPG signed and encrypted | `. `' Operating System messages accepted. | `- http://www.debian.org/
Attachment:
pgplH8nPX8qrF.pgp
Description: PGP signature