Quoting Simon Josefsson (2026-03-02 11:02:26) > What is this obvious meaning of the term "pure"? Does it mean 100% > 'main'? Or main + non-free-firmware? Or all sections? Or all > section plus external scripts used by the Debian release and images > teams?
"pure" is what Debian (the community) promises its users will always be 100% free, e.g. here: https://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian.en.html > Others have claimed that Blends cannot contain additional packages > from outside of Debian, so this seems contradicting to me. Others have claimed that the Earth is flat. That factual information however not helping this conversation. If perhaps (as a wild guess, because you made such wild allegation without reference) you mean to say that I, in my first reply in this thread, made that claim, then you are mistaken: I did not talk about "Blends" (which include whiskey blends and tobacco blends). Instead I talked about two distinct concepts, "Debian Pure Blends" and "Debian Blends", where one of them but not both excludes *ANYTHING non-Debian - which is how the word play comes into existence: You can blend Debian, and if you do it purely 100% only with Debian, you can call the result a Debian Pure Blend. You don't have to - you can consider that an idiotic and meaningless combination of words, just as you can disagree with Debian calling its product "always 100% free" - but iff you agree to the terminology then you are encouraged to make use of the terminology, because then all of us that use same terminology knows what we are talking about, when we are comparing things labeled using involved terms. Kind regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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