Re: Discussion - non-free software removal
>>"John" == John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
John> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:46:01PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
>> you're right - non-free is not in Debian GNU/Linux itself. that's
>> certainly true.
>>
>> the problem is that you think a little hand-waving and yelling will make
>> everyone forget that a non-free section is in the the debian archive and
>> that we can just get rid of it without disrupting anything or
>> inconveniencing anyone.
John> I did not state the removal from the next release would have
John> zero impact. I believe, though, that the impact will be
John> negligible.
On what are you basing this belief? There a re number of
packages that are being used by people out there (I have less than
one half of 1% of my packages as non-free, and yet those non free
packages are there since I can't do without them. If they are not on
Debian servers, I know one that won't be available to people for
use.
>> sorry, we're not that stupid.
John> You have yet to demonstrate even one material problem that
John> would arise from non-free being removed from Debian servers in
John> future releases.
I would have thought that removing packages one uses from a
central repository, maintained by people whose OS I trust, is a
patently obvious degradation of ease of use to a user of debian.
John> You still have yet to point out how this actually hurts people.
I am afraid that if you still do not see the impact on users,
nothing that can be said can show it to you.
manoj
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