On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 05:51:11PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Group (b) does not want to do this work > > because they want non-free to be in Debian, not external to it. > > For reference, I don't want to do that work because I think it's a waste > of time and effort to have a separate archive exclusively for non-free; > that no one who wants to drop non-free is willing to waste that effort > suggests to me (along with my own experience) that it's a *significant* > waste of effort, given that if it were insignificant, someone would've > already done it just to stop this complaint. It's certainly a significant waste of effort if you try to do it without the cooperation of the maintainers of non-free packages. It's probably also a significant effort to set up an external non-free archive - but I don't think it's a large one. On the order of a few man-days. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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