Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:12:00PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: >> I'll disable the chooser and hardcode SHOW_ONLY_FREE. As there are only >> about 5 >> applications in contrib+non-free, which can be installed from g-a-i, this >> won't >> hurt. >> >> Maybe I'll replace it with the desktop chooser: 'All Applications', 'GNOME >> Applications', 'KDE Applications', 'XFCE Applications'. This makes more sense >> than choosers for non-free or 3rd party software, which won't be available >> anymore. > > Looks good.. thank you. I just looked again at it, and I'll disable only the 3rd party option, and keep the other stuff, with some renamed descriptions. > > As for the patch, it was just a suggested approach (truly, anything that > doesn't jeopardize the Social Contract or spread confusion about it is fine > with me). > >>> - "component of Debian?"), >>> + "distribution?"), >> Well, distribution is a bit confusing. main, contrib, non-free are often >> refered to as sections or components. distribution is more used for the >> different suites. > > "component" implies that it is part of something. In this case, it's somewhat > left to ambiguity whether this something is the archive or the Debian > distribution. I think out of "components" and "sections", the latter is more > clear. Well, Components is used in the Release files http://cdimage.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/Release
> > Btw, it's nice to see this added to Debian. Will we see it added to the > gnome metapackage (or desktop task) anytime soon? It has been added to the gnome-desktop task last year already in tasksel, but this has not been reflected in the archive yet. > > Thanks > -- Julian Andres Klode, Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe Debian Maintainer | Developer | Ubuntu Member try Debian: http://www.debian.org/ | my site: http://jak-linux.org/ jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | IRC: juliank (FreeNode, OFTC) languages: German | English
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