J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote: > Yavor Doganov wrote: > >> I don't think that gNewSense, as a distribution, must make extra >> effort not to be possible to install non-free software. But it should >> not make extra effort not to BREAK the users' systems that have >> non-free software installed. That's what most of the other GNU/Linux i agree. just as we dont stop people installing non free software, but we dont help them do so.
>> distros do -- they refrain from changes that might badly affect >> non-free software users or take care to add "Conflicts:" (or the >> equivalent of it) to reduce the harm these users could suffer. This >> is unacceptable for an ethical free software distribution. > > I agree. By way of hypothetical example: > > - if you installed a non-free PDF reader and some gNewSense package > somehow clobbered the settings to keep that program working, that's > not a bug. Depends - the reason .files exist is to keep different programs settings separate. if the gns package used the wrong .files/folder, its a bug. > > - if you installed a free PDF reader and some gNewSense package > somehow clobbered the settings to keep that program working, that's a > bug. depends on .files/folders again. kk > > gNewSense is here to help you become and remain free, not to aid your > dependency on non-free software. > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users -- Karl Goetz User of gNewSense: Free as in Freedom - http://www.gnewsense.org Australian Ubuntu users team - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam User of Debian, The Universal Operating System - http://www.debian.org
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