On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:36:57 +0200, Jurzitza, Dieter wrote: > seing this pop up every other time: is there a real good reason (apart > from saving some kilobytes of harddisk-space) to not include afbinit in > the sparc-distribution and to not automatically install it?
The good reason is that it's already in the archive. $ madison afbinit afbinit | 1.0-1 | stable | source, sparc afbinit | 1.0-1 | testing | source, sparc afbinit | 1.0-1 | unstable | source, sparc However it's in contrib because non-free microcode needs to be downloaded to make it work. > Every newbee will fall over this (happened to me, too ...). I know in > the meantime that there is a hint in the bugtrack, but to find it you > have to know what you are looking for ... It's a tough situation because of the licensing problem. I'm not sure of a good place where a little README should go. -- Joshua Kwan
