Hi,
>>"Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Raul> We need to have a clean administrative interface between the free and
Raul> the non-free parts of debian.
I think I agree here.
Raul> Not everyone is going to be able to use the non-free parts, and
Raul> not all distributions are going to contain the non-free parts.
This is also true of the non-us parts. The solution we come up
with should also address the issue of people not being able to access
the non-US parts as well. Or, in general, any heirarchy being
unavailaqble.
Raul> For the worst case "suggests -> enhances" mess, you could even
Raul> create a single empty non-free package which enhances the free
Raul> part and which suggests any of a suite of non-free software.
Raul> This puts administrative control in the right place, yet leaves
Raul> a clean interface between the part which may be freely
Raul> distributed and the part which may not be.
That is a such a gortesque hack. And what exactly is it buying
that makes it better than improving dselect not to display missing
heirarchies? (Apart from not handling the non-US issue, since most
CD's here in the US do *not* carry the non-US category).
Concentrating on the non-free in exclusion to the non-US is
putting the religious issue in front of technical ones; that's just
one thing that bothers me about this proposal. So far, Debian has
always been about excellence, not about fanaticism.
Raul> I think that's much better than creating a "Maybe-Suggests:" and stuffing
Raul> non-free references into the DFSG packages.
If the references are never displayed *to people who dio not want*
tham, why is that so bad? And why are we going through hoops to
impose the religion on everyone else as well?
manoj
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