On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 13:41:48 -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > If the package depends on software in non-free it will > just fail to install. Otherwise it will install just fine because it does > not depend on a missing package. > > There is no good reason not to think of contrib as an extention of main, > where *some* software may require non-free packages. > > Actually I see no good reason at all for a source.list to fail to have > contrib.
And I see a very good reason contrib to be explicitly excluded from sources.list. The case you described is not applicable to packages like msttcorefonts or flashplugin-nonfree, which are completely non-free with simple workarounds. The contrib section may be an extension to main, but an evil extension that misleads the users. -- Yavor Doganov JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Software Association - Bulgaria http://fsa-bg.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
