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Re: Bug#207932: Consequences of moving Emacs Manuals to non-free



On 15 Mar 2006, Davide G. M. Salvetti verbalised:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to support the request of Sven Joachim: I think that
> emacs21 and emacs-snapshot should depend on or recommend the newly
> added "non-free" doc package.  Therefore, consistently, emacs21 and
> emacs-snapshot should go into the contrib section.

        Depends is too strong a relationship; if I have several
 machines in my LAN, I may only keep extensive documentation on one of
 them, and use NFS to share share-able directories. I would be annoyed
 if I was made to install loads of documentation on all machines.

        manoj
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