Re: Discussion - non-free software removal

["John H. Robinson, IV" <jhriv@ucsd.edu>]

Branden Robinson wrote:
> 
> I didn't say I agreed with it.  I'm simply trying to figure out what the
> "GR-opposition party" stands for.

i do stand for preventing unnecessary harm and dismay to our users.

the propositions of no longer asking about non-free/contrib at install
time are excellent. the sample sources.list installed can have a small
blurb saying

# The non-free and contrib sections are not a part of the Debian OS.
# If you wish to activate these non-Debian portions, uncomment the
# following lines:

or some other verbage, that preferably removes the negative words
(people can easily skip over the words not and non-).

the propositions of actually changing the name of contrib and non-free
to more descriptive not-a-part-of-the-OS are good (these can cause a bit
of dismay to the users when the next release no longer has contrib and
non-free, and they wonder why their sources.list just broke)


i do stand for preventing the unnecessary harm and dismay to our users.
i speak for myself, and those that like what i say.

-john