On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Ionutz Borcoman wrote: > - you already have the package installed (You made your choice when you > first installed it) > - you asked for the package from non-free to be installed (You've just > read the infos about the package and agreed on the consecuences) > - you asked for a package from contrib (dselect will clearly show you > the depencencies).
This is entirely accurate. Dselect is pretty verbose about the non-free stuff too. In theory you could do something like apt-get install ssh But, arguably you should know it is non-free, or at least you will be watching the download and see the pretty non-free indicator. > Can dist-upgrade introduce more non-free packages on the system ? Do we > have packages that do this (depend on more and more non-free packages) ? No, that would violate clause #1 of the Social Contract Jason
