On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 05:58:02PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > I presume this issue arises because people (myself included) dislike the > fact that in order to install some RFCs and/or GNU documentation one has > to flick a switch that also opens the door to some thoroughly > proprietary software. On most machines you already need that switch for the microcode updates though. > Of course there are several lines that could be drawn in a variety of > places, but it might be nice to have the ability to only enable some > subset(s) of non-free in one's sources.list (without having to specify a > lot of fragile pinning) Yeah, this idea is mentioned from time to time. > I suppose it might be possible that we (as a project) could agree to > some of these subsets being easier and/or harder to enable, and thus > allow the FSF to feel more cheerful about the way we look at the world. I don't know why we should care about the FSF's opinion though. -- WBR, wRAR
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