dselect and contrib/non-free - DWN-6/22
> Wichert Akkerman has proposed splitting non-free and contrib out to a
> new server, nonfree.debian.org. The impetus for this is to emphasize
> that they are not part of Debian, since "the distinction isn't as
> visible as it used to be; advances in searching in the distribution
> and tools like apt make it very hard to see when something is in main
> and when not". The proposal will come up for a vote soon and is
> generating lots of discussion.
One thing that might help is if dselect does not sort purely alphabetical
when sorting by section. contrib/* should not be between comm and devel,
but rather be apart from main. Same thing for non-free.
Just another thought,
Hugo van der Merwe
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