Re: Why non-free packages are not in *.iso
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 07:14:08PM +0200, belahcene wrote:
> Hi,
> I got all the iso sarge cd, no one contains the non-free directory? So
> to install latex2html-2002, i have to download it from the site, why it
> is not in the iso cd,
> since it is in the /packages.debian.org/testing/tex/latex2html ?
Because stuff in non-free often has restrictions on distribution that
prevent it from being included on a Debian CD. Also, by definition,
only the "main" archive is the official Debian distribution.
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