Re: the gimp?
E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote:
> Actually this is probably the best idea. Every package that has a
> `non-free' variant and a free one could have the free package named
> ..-free. This guarantees the user on the one hand that the contents of
> the package is free, and also provides a hint that there are non-free
> additions, for those that may need them.
Debian guarentees that everything in it's main distribution is free, which
makes preprending -free to package names quite pointless. The gimp package
suggests gimp-nonfree, which means that if you use dselect or any other
reasonable tool for selecting gimp, and you have set up your system to
access the nbon-free archives, you will be shown gimp-nonfree when you
select gimp for installation.
Gimp-nonfree is not a complete gimp package, it just contains the gimp
plugin. The gimp has a plugin architecture; the fact that Debian omits one
non-free plugin from their base gimp package is not a good reason to say we
should not call that package "gimp".
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