On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:46:36AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > How about linuxgazette? Junk, which is only barely excused because it's free. > Or any of the /usr/local/doc/ non-software based packages? No packages in Debian have files in /usr/local/doc. Doing so would be an RC bug. > Prehaps a section apart from main/non-free/non-US could be useful, as a > document such as those above don't really fit into those categories, if > you take them to mean "free software"/"restrictive licence > software"/"not for US software", which thought of by quite a few users. It's called your local library. I still haven't seen anybody come up with an actual reason why stuff like this should be shipped as part of Debian, other than "it exists". Intrinsic value is not a reason; there are many valuable things that are not packaged. Including a wide range of commercial software. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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