Le Mercredi 6 Avril 2005 13:44, Mark Brown a écrit : > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:08:21AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > As thus i was wondering if, together with the volatile effort, it > > would not be time for us to split the non-free archive into two > > parts, namely : > > > > 1) non-free-but-freely-distributable > > > > 2) rest of non-free > > While that does look like a useful distinction, especially for (as > you say) people building CDs and the like, there also seems to be a > reasonable community of people who are willing to accept non-free > downloads to hardware but still don't want non-free software running > on the host system. That would suggest that it would also be worth > having a separate section specifically for data to be downloaded to > hardware, or perhaps for non-free data in general since there seems > to be some crossover with people who wouldn't mind things like > non-free standards documents either. well, those people could use appropriate pinning in apt/preferences to avoid installation of things they don't want. i don't say it's possible atm, but I don't think such possibility would be hard to implement in apt : pinning on sections. maybe I'm wrong ? -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O OOO http://www.madism.org
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