Re: Where is contrib?

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Subject: Re: Where is contrib?
From: Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 18:56:07 -0800
Message-id: <[🔎] 87isgjay0o.fsf@ursine.ca>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20040402023822.GO11393@esgaroth.schmehl.info> (Alexander Schmehl's message of "Fri, 2 Apr 2004 04:38:22 +0200")
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Alexander Schmehl <alexander@schmehl.info> writes:

> * Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> [040401 22:23]:
>
>> IIRC, the CDs do not contain non-free (for obvious reasons) and do not
>> include contrib (because contrib packages always depend on non-free
>> packages).
>
> No, some packages in contrib have only a build-dependency on non-free
> packages.

Well, that would taint the binary.

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