Re: Comments on Debian packages and installation

1999-01-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 07:56:23PM +, Jules Bean wrote: > > 1) Ban suggestions from main to non-free or contrib > 2) Implement enhances for the last set of examples > 3) Ditch the rest (well, the rest above). > > Lots of people aren't going to agree with me on this one... Well, FWIW, actuall

Re: Comments on Debian packages and installation

1999-01-18 Thread Raul Miller
Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, MHO is: > > 1) Ban suggestions from main to non-free or contrib > 2) Implement enhances for the last set of examples > 3) Ditch the rest (well, the rest above). > > Lots of people aren't going to agree with me on this one... Personally, I'd say impleme

Re: Comments on Debian packages and installation

1999-01-18 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Anthony Towns wrote: [Thanks to anthony for a concrete list] > > Some of the other packages in this situation: > > rsync suggests ssh > > inn suggests pgp > kbackup suggests pgp > kbackup-doc suggests pgp (the documentation for KBackup) > tm s

Re: Comments on Debian packages and installation

1999-01-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 12:27:59PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > So our goals are: > > > > * make a working, completely free system. ie, main. > You're saying that the Suggests: links are not an official part > of Debian? I'm saying that the Suggests: links don't force you to have a non-free

Re: Comments on Debian packages and installation

1999-01-18 Thread Raul Miller
Anthony Towns wrote: > Bleh. Can we /please/ move this to -devel? Done. On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 12:00:17AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > Also, in our social contract we say that packages in contrib are > > not a part of Debian, but then we go ahead and create official links > > in official pack