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Re: Why does Debian distributed firmware not need to be Depends: upon? [was Re: LCC and blobs]



On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:52:40PM +0100, Miguel Gea Milvaques wrote:
> Hello,
> I don't undestand why software loading files (as we are talking) must be
> in contrib. An example: xpdf, if you have not a pdf file you could not
> use it, only it gave us a blank page. You could read a lot of different
> files, a free pdf files or a non-free pdf files, and xpdf we never thing
> to put xpdf in contrib. 

I think a thing needs to be in contrib only if it *REQUIRES* non-free
software to be useful.



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