Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)
In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> >
> > Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL.
> >
>
> Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still curious,
> though: why is non-US called a distribution in apt, when it is in fact a
> component? Is this historical or what?
I don't really know, Luis. It seems confusing to me, and picking it
from the distribution menu in dselect (apt-method) would create a
wrong sources.list line, if I grok the directory layout correctly.
But I've been wrong before (once or twice).
You may want to ask this question on debian-devel, or file a bug against
dselect if you think it is really a bug. I never really used dselect
to build a sources.list line (until just now), so I never noticed this
before. Maybe there is a good reason for it. *shrugs*
-Mitch
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