On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:59:15PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:14:13PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > So, would you be opposed to have non-free stay on the debian > > infrastructure, and have some DNS magic mapping non-free.org to it, and > > this being the exclusive way of accessing this ? This would, i believe > > be a very costless way of achieving what you want, without excessive > > cost to our infrastructure. > > Personally, I think this would be a good interim solution. Just look at > how the GNU project handles this with savannah.gnu.org and > savannah.nongnu.org. Of course, things are a bit different there, as > nongnu.org is still about Free Software, but their aim is to distinguish > between the official GNU project and the rest, just like we want to > distinguish the official Debian project from non-free.
The main problem i see is in the debian mirror network, but i also fail to see how things will change if the drop non-free vote will pass, and the mirrors decide to mirror both debian/main and the non-free in a single apt source. All in all, i think that there is a bit of a lack of maturity about the remove non-free proposal. > OTOH, I put up this alternative (DNS and other magic) for discussion > some months ago, and some people (aj, I believe) said it would be too > difficult to implement cleanly, or at least not worth the effort. I'd be > happy to know about the opposite, though, if anybody has a good insight > into this. Well, aj said it is not worth the effort. Now, i don't know if it would be more work than having a fully separate repository. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]