On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 02:14:44PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Martin> Craig Brozefsky wrote: > >> I would also like for it to be easy for me to determine which non-free > >> packages are on my system. I'm no dpkg slouch, but I haven't figured > >> out an easy way (less than 10 minutes of awk scripting) to do it yet. > > Martin> Install vrms. > > This I like. Rather than imposing political agendas on all > users, people who do not like non-free software can just install it > on their machine. We can even make vrms be as obnoxious as we wish -- > like asking on every install, every removal, and sending email every > 5 seconds, deleting non-free software surreptitiously, whatever > people want on their machines. What is the point of this rant? Craig Brozefsky asked for a tool that would make it easy for him to determine which non-free packages were on his system Joey directed him to such a tool. How does this lead us down a slippery slope to "ehancing" the vrms program to being obnoxious in the manner you describe? > It should not be imposed on users who have chosen to so > install the non-fee software. How does this follow from Joey's informational remark? -- G. Branden Robinson | You don't just decide to break Kubrick's Debian GNU/Linux | code of silence and then get drawn away branden@ecn.purdue.edu | from it to a discussion about cough cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | medicine.
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