This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said: > Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net> writes: > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:29:38AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > >> It seems to me that there is no reason ndiswrapper can't be available > >> to the installer whether it's in main or contrib. > > > > AFAIK, it would need to be on the first CD. > > Ok, then we could put selected packages from contrib on the first CD, > provided they are DFSG-free, without causing any problems. Since > ndiswrapper certainly is DFSG-free, why not do this? Feel free to submit patches to d-i to have packages from contrib on the first CD and available to the installer. Historically this has not been the case, and I assume it won't be unless someone presents a convincing argument for why it should be, and then does some of the work of getting it done. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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