>>>>> Joey Hess writes: JH> Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: >> Some software in main is totally useless to me because my >> computers don't send/receive *any* information to/from non-free >> software, and they run all the software in main. >> >> `main' is big enough as it is. If we gut it, I'll have more room >> on my tiny hard disk. More room to do important things, like >> write free replacements for the packages we gutted.
JH> I suggest you learn how to deselect things in dselect. How do you deselect all the packages from `main' that lose features if you are on a network that contains only `main' software? To my knowledge, the only way to do this is to do research into every package in `main', a prospect I'm not thrilled at having to complete. It would be nicer if I only researched the few Debian packages I maintained, and others researched theirs, and then we can compile a list. I believe that list would be best expressed as a forest of symlinks, under the name `pure' (or some other, less inflammatory name). -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Committed to freedom and diversity \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)
