On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 22:40:31 +0200, Wesley W Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:27:25PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>> Wesley W. Terpstra dijo [Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:59:36PM +0200]:
>> > At this point my question is only academic; the pure-gcc in main,
>> > icc-prebuilt in contrib solution seems to solve my concerns just
>> > as well.
>>
>> I have only one concern with this: What happens if you drop the
>> package and someone else takes it? He will no longer be able to
>> compile it with icc, and the icc-prebuilt users will be left out in
>> the cold. What would you say to that?
> He can upload a version to contrib which depends on the version in
> main and has no contents. Then the icc users are automatically
> converted to gcc.
Why not go the contrib route to start with, and avoid these
potential surprises?
> Or else, if he is an open-source developer who makes no money from
> his debian work, he can download icc from their site for free. Just
> universities and paid researchers like me have to pay. Sniff.
Just because I make not money from Debian does not mean I am
willing to sell out to non-free software. There _is_ a principle
involved here, you know.
manoj
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