Re: the gimp?
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On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:44:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Really?
>
> peon:~# apt-get install gimp
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> gimp
> [...]
>
> gimp-nonfree is definitely available (it's reinstalling right now).
> But I already knew about it. I remember finding out about it being a
> PITA, though. For those of us who don't spend our free time reading
> package dependencies, the name "gimp" doesn't suggest there's a
> "gimp-nonfree" any more than "shellutils" suggests a
> "shellutils-nonfree".
Dselect will prompt you for every sugested and recommended package, which
is not installed (apt-get don't, one could file a wishlist-bug against
apt, who about an comand line option to show not installed, suggested
packages, something like 'apt-get show-suggested gimp' in this case). But
when using dselect you don't have to look at the dependencies.
> [...]
Martin
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If Windows is the answer, can we please have the problem back?
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