On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Neil McGovern wrote: > On my laptop, I have: firmware-realtek, icc-profiles, intel-microcode, skype > and steam from non-free, and flashplugin-nonfree, iucode-tool from contrib. > > On my server, I have pine, which I don't use but some of the users on it seem > to be unwilling to move to anything else.
You might like to test alpine on a few of them, it is the free replacement: https://packages.debian.org/stable/alpine > I don't think that splitting this up helps our users. Using debian.org > provides a trusted distribution mechanism. I think it's better that > people get trusted non-free packages from us, than get them from a > random third party by burying our heads in the sand and pretending > non-free software doesn't exist. I agree with the last sentence there and note that this doesn't seem to preclude a split between non-free.org and debian.org (a split in name only). -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6GQp+EmTpO76q4MAw=KHO4B3r9MTZ=f+etz6zz0tou...@mail.gmail.com
