Re: contrib

[Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 01:59:09AM -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote:
>     * the GR doesn't specify that, but we take out contrib so we don't
>       have dangling dependencies

contrib already has dangling dependencies, even with non-free.

>     * contrib gets in incorporated into main, with dangling
>       dependencies

This would be in violation of the social contract: "we will never make
the system depend on an item of non-free software".

Cheers,
aj

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