Re: Negative Summary of the Split Proposal
Raul Miller wrote:
> Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE> wrote:
> > Wait. This is not true. You are free to set up a mirror at
> > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/debian where non-free and contrib are left
> > aside. The same applies for the OfficialCD, the first two CDs
> > only contain main, which is the official Debian distribution.
> > I would be glad if you would provide such a mirror.
>
> This wouldn't solve anything, because every time a new version of
> apt appeared it would be mirrored, and apt specifies non-free (and
> contrib) in its default configuration.
I'd also like to see apt (and other access tools as well) to change
their default setting so non-free and contrib is only mentioned in a
comment and the user has to include it. Currently it's the other way
round, the user has to decide to skip them.
Thus would enable RMS to point to debian.gnu.org (or free.debian.org
or whatever). It would still mean that either he has to rebuild apt
to user debian.gnu.org as default host instead of ftp.debian.org or
we need to change something. Not sure how to get around this.
Regards,
Joey
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