On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:27:42PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > In any case, binary modules are a fact of life I'm afraid. > > Bull. We are Debian, not fucking RedHat or Mandrake. We strive to > exist without non-free software and using its existance as an excuse > to make your packages far worse is a complete disgrace to the project. > > Linus doesn't support binary-only modules. He doesn't care about them. > That's why they break. This attitude is good. We should ignore > non-free software, or at least not give it enough attention to let it > hurt the quality of our free software packages.
Your "we should ignore non-free software" sounds as if you disagree with the Social Contract? <-- snip --> We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of programs that don't conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines. ... Thus, although non-free software isn't a part of Debian, we support its use, and we provide infrastructure (such as our bug-tracking system and mailing lists) for non-free software packages. <-- snip --> cu Adrian -- Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, sondern weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie schwierig.
