E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > Actually this is probably the best idea. Every package that has a > `non-free' variant and a free one could have the free package named > ..-free. This guarantees the user on the one hand that the contents of > the package is free, and also provides a hint that there are non-free > additions, for those that may need them.
Debian guarentees that everything in it's main distribution is free, which makes preprending -free to package names quite pointless. The gimp package suggests gimp-nonfree, which means that if you use dselect or any other reasonable tool for selecting gimp, and you have set up your system to access the nbon-free archives, you will be shown gimp-nonfree when you select gimp for installation. Gimp-nonfree is not a complete gimp package, it just contains the gimp plugin. The gimp has a plugin architecture; the fact that Debian omits one non-free plugin from their base gimp package is not a good reason to say we should not call that package "gimp". -- see shy jo