Re: Discussion - non-free software removal

[Derek Gladding <derek_gladding@altavista.net>]

On Sunday 17 November 2002 04:29 am, Roger Leigh wrote:

[snip]

> In the same way, gpg has replaced pgp, but there are still non-free
> packages with no free equivalent, and non-free would still be useful
> for these.
>
> Can the popularity-contest show which non-free packages are not used?
> Rather than removing non-free in one go, removing unused packages and
> those that have usable free equivalents first would make the
> transition less painful for users who depend on non-free.

I had a look at the pop-con results for non-free a couple of days back, and it 
looked then like about 1/3 of non-free had no recorded installs.

- Derek