Re: Why are these packages in Debian?

[Nikos <nikos@altern.org>]

> Because someone packaged them, and someone uses (installed)
> them. Whether it is easy to find on the web, is irrelevant, as there
> are still people who are not connected 24/7, and prefer to install a
> package, and read it offline.

But they are very easy to retrieve and save with every web browser.

> And having them in Debian means that I can just do an apt-get install,
> instead of hunting through thousands of results on google.

I typed "king james bible" in Google and hit "I'm feeling lucky". I was 
browsing the text 1 second later...


-- 
Nikos