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Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main



(dropping the profligacy of lists)

Andrey Rahmatullin writes ("Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main"):
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:52:18PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I would like to establish a way to prevent this. 
> Why would the project do that, though?

Because...

> > We should aim for most of the changes necessary for
> > such derivatives to be in Debian proper, so the derivative can be
> > little more than a change to the default configuration.)
>
> Why?

... we should aim for the above statement to be true for all
reasonable derivatives.

> I also hope that you already have people who will do the actual work after
> the discussions will provide the architecture.

If there is a core implementation needed (eg a library which parses a
standard config location or soemthing), I expect to to write it.

Ian.

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