On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 05:54:02PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > > And the non-free appearing in the path is not a dead give away? > > > > > > > that's those debs are not an part of the official distribution? No, it's > > not. > > Would making them available as > ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/not-officially-part-of-debian--non-free/ that's preferrable to the seperate server?? > make everyone happy then? (With a nice symlink from stable/non-free for > the convenience of our users, of course. :) If that's not enough, how is The symlink, of course, ruins the issue. > non-free.debian.org enough? Shouldn't it be non-free.sorta-debian.org? sorta-debian would require another internic registration. It might be better to leave them out. > How does the casual browser know that something on a particular server > that *is* in the debian.org domain isn't really part of debian? Again, > who's this targeted at--casual users or hard-liners who already know the > difference? I believe casual users and newbies and the sensitive. -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <gecko@debian.org> <secretary@debian.org> <lintian-maint@debian.org> * * <webmaster@debian.org> <gecko@fortunet.com> <webmaster@spi-inc.org> * =========================================================================
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