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Re: one of the many reasons why removing non-free is a dumb idea



On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:54:27PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > As an Alpha user, the quality of a package on i386 is completely
> > irrelevant.
> 
> Stop trolling, sure i understand about porting, but this is so wrong. If
> fixes got in the package, not the i386 package, but the source package,
> then you can build the fixed version.

Ehm, the main point of the 'keep non-free' camp seems to be user
convinience. Surely 'compile it yourself' doesn't fall in this category?


Michael 



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