On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:39:53PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:I think that it may encourage improved support for non-Debian-hosted packages in general, including project-produced packages and backport projects.And ? Is this a good thing, or a negative effect on the global amount ofnon-free sfotware in general ?
A good thing. It means that more software gets packaged for debian and probably more people would use debian. I don't really care about negative effects on non-free software in general in this case. I support the Suffield drop GR to improve Debian, not to harm non-free.
This would mean, not having a relative small, and negatively viewednon-free repository on the debian archive, but an officially recognizedproliferation of third party non-free packages we have no control on.
I want a proliferation of third-party free packages for debian. Third party non-free (like j2* packages) already exist and I doubt they would grow as quickly as free ones.
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