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Re: How tightly should main be self-contained?



On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:52:36PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> > With the exception of the recent aptitude bug, this makes all the
> > difference between pulling in non-free packages by default, and
> > informing the user by default that a non-free package is available which
> > complements the chosen package.

> umm. there are packages in contrib not requiring non-free stuff for
> them working because they just need it for build..

Yes, of course; point was that suggesting packages outside of main
results in main retaining its status as a closure per the default
handling of package management tools, whereas recommending packages
outside of main violates this closure (regardless of the reason for the
package being outside of main).

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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