technical issues [was: Software in main ...]
>>>>> Joey Hess writes:
JH> Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
>> Some software in main is totally useless to me because my
>> computers don't send/receive *any* information to/from non-free
>> software, and they run all the software in main.
>>
>> `main' is big enough as it is. If we gut it, I'll have more room
>> on my tiny hard disk. More room to do important things, like
>> write free replacements for the packages we gutted.
JH> I suggest you learn how to deselect things in dselect.
How do you deselect all the packages from `main' that lose features if
you are on a network that contains only `main' software?
To my knowledge, the only way to do this is to do research into every
package in `main', a prospect I'm not thrilled at having to complete.
It would be nicer if I only researched the few Debian packages I
maintained, and others researched theirs, and then we can compile a
list.
I believe that list would be best expressed as a forest of symlinks,
under the name `pure' (or some other, less inflammatory name).
--
Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@fig.org> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/)
Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)
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