Re: Screw non-free.
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> > Does anyone remember what other (if any) non-free packages were
> > considered `big and important'?
>
> PGP, and RSA/IDEA modules for GnuPG. Maybe even StarOffice, but I'm not
> sure if it was ever packaged.
Hmmm, also I seem to recall Adobe's acroread was in this category once,
but it doesn't seem to be in non-free anymore anyway (and xpdf seems
basically up to the task these days).
A quick trawl with aptitude shows nothing particularly major in
non-free.
As for somewhat-popular-but-not-really-mega-huge packages, I made the
following little list (according to my tastes; there's lots of other
random stuff of course):
doc-rfc*
ckermit
*angband*
snes9x*
lha
xmame*
povray
scsh
mpg123
xpdf-(various asian languages)
nvidia-*
Stuff like the above is not a very compelling reason to keep non-free
IMHO...
[The xpdf-(various asian languages) thing is a bit weird -- it seems to
be because they include `adobe CMAP files', whatever those are...]
-miles
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