Do we really need a 'contrib' area ? (Re: Bug#661329: recommends doom-wad which is only provided by non-free doom-wad-shareware).
Hi again,
I actually question if we need our current level of division, which is already
lower than in other distributions. How often do people enable contrib without
non-free ? Doing so would be to install packages such as the ones discussed
every year on that list, which do not trigger installation of non-free
material, but are narrowly specialised to some non-Free, non-packaged data or
code. That could go in main, and the rest in non-free, without major changes
the definition of these two areas: main is DFSG-free and self-contained from a
packaging point of view (I do not see workable alternative points of view), and
non-free contains packages which, when installed, cause non-Free materials to
be installed automatically on the system with apt's default configuration.
Cheers,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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