Re: communicator: contrib vs non-free

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net> wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:04:27AM -0700, peanut butter wrote:
>> Hi, forgive me if this is a stupid or over-answered question.  I
>> just spent alot of time searching the last quarter of mailing
>> list archives and searching Debian Package descriptions to answer
>> the question myself but can't seem to find a suitable answer:
>> 
>> What is the difference between Communicator offered through "contrib"
>> vs. "non-free".  Which naturally leads to: is one better
>> than the other?
>> 
>> With the just previous round of Communicator being released by Debian
>> Security, the last two machines I have upgrading "voluntarily", as a
>> "new" package, downloaded the non-free version of Communicator which
>> conflicts with the (I suppose) already installed contrib version.
>> Since I apparently can't have both, I have to decide between one or the
>> other.
>
>The communicator package in contrib is a meta package that depends upon
>the real packages in non-free.

There have also been two packages in contrib called netscape3 and netscape4.
Those were recently removed from testing/unstable in favour of the newer
Netscape packages, so you probably shouldn't need to use them.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]