On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 16:49, Susan Kleinmann wrote:
> The list of non-free packages is shown below, sorted by section.
...
> games: gsn-curses
> games: gsn-jigsaw
> games: gumshoe
> games: so-far
> games: tatctae
> games: weather
These are all empty packages; they've been replaced by
int-fiction-installer, which gets the appropriate files (and any other
interactive fiction games) off an offsite FTP and installs them. Which
is in contrib, and so doesn't need
I'm curious - how much of non-free is in a situation like this? Where
we're counting dummy packages.
Or things like 'tadsr', a non-free TADS interpreter, even though there
are no TADS games in the archive. Is it unreasonable to assume users
cannot find an interpreter if they've managed to find the file they need
to be interpreted? Ditto for SNES9x and iNES - there aren't any SNES/NES
ROMS in the archive.
How much of non-free is already "inconvenient" to users, by requiring
non-distributable data files (or data files that just aren't in the
archive anyway)?
Someone (I could volunteer I guess, but I might not be the most
knowledge about some of the stuff) needs to go through non-free and find
out how much of it is relevant, period.
--
- Joe Wreschnig <piman@sacredchao.net> - http://www.sacredchao.net
"What I did was justified because I had a policy of my own... It's
okay to be different, to not conform to society."
-- Chen Kenichi, Iron Chef Chinese
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