Re: What is a game or which section do game console emulators belong to (was: Sections - especially section:kde and section:gnome)

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Subject: Re: What is a game or which section do game console emulators belong to (was: Sections - especially section:kde and section:gnome)
From: Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:49:26 +0100
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:00:13AM +0900, Paul Wise wrote:
> Personally I'm not sure what the reason sections were introduced, 

I assume it was because from a flat FTP hierachy it was not very easy to
tell what kind of purpose a particular .deb had back in 1993.


Michael

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