Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > [Note: I'm not advocating tossing packages out of `main', I'm arguing > that we should make a symlinked-to-`main' distro called `pure'. See > my proposal.] > > >>>>> Karl M Hegbloom writes: > > KMH> We've accepted that the Linux kernel itself can go into [pure], > KMH> even though it's got support for non-freed proprietary > KMH> filesystems. > > Yes, because it can also read and write free filesystems, so it > doesn't *require* a non-freed filesystem to be useful. > > KMH> So why not a reader for Word documents? > > Only if the reader can also read documents produced by software found > in `main'. Otherwise, that reader *requires* non-main software (MS > Word) in order to be useful.
So word2x could add a pager for plain ASCII and comply with pure, because it doesn't *require* a non-free document to be useful. i.e. add unrelated functionality that complies with `pure'. If you don't agree with this, then all kernel drivers that read non-free filesystems would have to be packaged out of the kernel. Anything else will lead to inconsistent treatment of packages (like word2x). Peter Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
