On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:36:37PM -0500, Shaya Potter wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 17:29, Branden Robinson wrote: > > I wonder how many people understand that Debian dropping non-free from > > the archive and mirror network wouldn't actually remove any packages > > from their computers. > > not true, if the package isn't accessible, then the package on their > system will be come stale, and possibly forcably removed (because you > upgrade a library that conflicts w/ a library that non-free package > depends on). You presume that all packages in non-free are actively maintained. The same problem affects packages in main as well. > yes, an updated version of that non-free package might be available > somewhere for the users to download, but if its not readily accessible > (as the mirror network makes it) then its effectively going to remove > the packages from people's computers Availability has nothing to do with it. -- G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." Debian GNU/Linux | The original Latin seems to have branden@debian.org | been garbled. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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