On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 05:52:36PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > With the exception of the recent aptitude bug, this makes all the > > difference between pulling in non-free packages by default, and > > informing the user by default that a non-free package is available which > > complements the chosen package.
> umm. there are packages in contrib not requiring non-free stuff for > them working because they just need it for build.. Yes, of course; point was that suggesting packages outside of main results in main retaining its status as a closure per the default handling of package management tools, whereas recommending packages outside of main violates this closure (regardless of the reason for the package being outside of main). -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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