On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:27:42AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:07:11PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > How far must it wither before we decide it's not longer useful? To > > zero? > > > > What if Debian's support for non-free is actually contributing to its > > vitality? > > We had about 780 contrib+non-free packages in slink, about 800 in potato, > and about 570 in woody. That certainly doesn't seem like it's time for major > negative decisions, nor that the section is terribly vital. The GR is not to eliminate contrib, but just non-free. How many of the 570 were non-free? What's your bellyfeel number for how small non-free must get before we can safely toss it? > Why don't we stop with silly analogies? :> I'll stop if the GR opponents do. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Ignorantia judicis est calamitas branden@debian.org | innocentis. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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