Re: non-free and users?

[Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>]

On Jan 18, 2004, at 13:53, Raul Miller wrote:

> > On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 05:31, Raul Miller wrote:
> > > Dropping non-free would prevent Debian developers from distributing 
> > > any
> > > non-free packages (such as GFDL).
>
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:44:31AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> > No it wouldn't. Nothing would prevent a developer from joining the
> > nonfree.org project, etc.
>
> Brushing your teeth prevents tooth decay.  That doesn't mean
> that you'll never get cavities if you brush your teeth.

Ah, I misunderstood what you meant by the statement. Am I correct that 
you mean something more along the lines of:

	Dropping non-free would prevent Debian developers from distributing
	any non-free packages (such as GFDL) using Debian servers.
> > That isn't because a package is in Debian, it's because its in
> > /etc/apt/sources.list.
>
> And adding entries to /etc/apt/sources.list grants other people
> root access to your system.  There's a trust issue here.

Every time Debian accepts a new maintainer, that happens too.

> Also, there's the namespace issue Ted T'so mentioned.

Coordination fixes that. It'd be fairly simple for debian to host a 
package name registry, for example.