On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 02:13:12PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 08:03:53PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > "They should die because they are not needed" is the right approach. > > > Time shall solve the problem. > > > > It hasn't so far. We have added packages to non-free faster than we've > > been getting rid of them.[1] > > That doesn't have to mean anything, because we are generally slow as shit > when it comes to weeding things out. Under Osamu Aoki's theory of package retention, we shouldn't be weeding anything out of non-free as long as even one user still finds the package useful. I'd speculate that he feels the same way about main. -- G. Branden Robinson | Good judgement comes from Debian GNU/Linux | experience; experience comes from branden@debian.org | bad judgement. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Fred Brooks
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