On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:36:45AM -0500, Susan Kleinmann wrote: > Taken at face value, it looks as if the number of non-free packages > has not increased *significantly* since slink. But that it has increased at all is not suggestive that it is going to "dwindle" or "wither" of its own accord, as some have suggested. > Also, taking your suggestion that one should consider source packages > instead of binary packages, I suspect that package-splitting has become > a lot more common than it was in the days of slink, so a more detailed > analysis might actually show that the number of non-free packages has > decreased over the long run. It would be worthwhile to find out for sure. -- G. Branden Robinson | It doesn't matter what you are Debian GNU/Linux | doing, emacs is always overkill. branden@debian.org | -- Stephen J. Carpenter http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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