On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:23:40PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: [...] > So I do not agree that "Contrib is a ok place for installers". While > basically these installer are free software, it's a little bit > hypocritical to claim that these package contains free software. From the policy : Examples of packages which would be included in contrib or non-US/contrib are: * free packages which require contrib, non-free packages or packages which are not in our archive at all for compilation or execution, and * wrapper packages or other sorts of free accessories for non-free programs. In other words you do not agree with the Debian policy. It's quite amazing since according to : http://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=yeupou%40gnu.org You passed the Philosophy and Procedure. > Finally, someone who install the contrib flashplugin-nonfree get on > his computer a non-free software, possibly without even noticing it, > because he never seen a dependancy against a package in non-free. This is the aim of contrib. In that case do not add contrib in your sources.lists and apt-get install vrms ! Cheers, -- Pierre Machard <pmachard@debian.org> http://debian.org GPG: 1024D/23706F87 : B906 A53F 84E0 49B6 6CF7 82C2 B3A0 2D66 2370 6F87
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