On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 01:18:35PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Software depending on non-US (#37251) > > * Under discussion. > > * Proposed on 06 May 1999 by Marco d'Itri; seconded by Gordon > > Matzigkeit, Joseph Carter, Chris Waters and Davide G. M. Salvett. > > * Proposal to allow software that depends on software in non-us into > > main (currently restricted to contrib). > > ( This may be unnecessary given the recent re-org of non-us. ) > > I'm not sure I like this one. This would mean that main is no longer > self-contained, which I would consider a bad thing. I wonder if it > would be a better idea to move those package from contrib to non-US/main > so we can have both self-contained main and main+non-US/main CD's? This would I think still require policy changes, just different ones I think.. It's probably a better plan than what is being suggested above, so I'm withdrawing my support for #37251 in favor of your better plan. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "and i actually like debian 2.0 that much i completely revamped the default config of the linux systems our company sells and reinstalled any of the linux systems in the office and here at home.."
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