In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > > > > Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL. > > > > Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still curious, > though: why is non-US called a distribution in apt, when it is in fact a > component? Is this historical or what?
I don't really know, Luis. It seems confusing to me, and picking it from the distribution menu in dselect (apt-method) would create a wrong sources.list line, if I grok the directory layout correctly. But I've been wrong before (once or twice). You may want to ask this question on debian-devel, or file a bug against dselect if you think it is really a bug. I never really used dselect to build a sources.list line (until just now), so I never noticed this before. Maybe there is a good reason for it. *shrugs* -Mitch
