On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Bruce Sass wrote: > Would once be fine, or should contrib/non-free users need to make an explicit > choice every first time a package outside of Main is an installation > candidate?
s/first// but yes. As a user of contrib/non-free I specifically only want packages from there when I choose them directly. Anything else would be against policy and IMO the social contract. > Debian already favours Main packages by default and the sysadmin/user must > explicitly choose to add Contrib and Non-free to the sources.list if they want > packages from those archives--why isn't that a good enough flag of the > sysadmin/user's dependency solving preferences? In my case, I have non-free for GNU documentation and firmware only. I do not want anything else from non-free to be pulled in. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6gp6sjr5fy6ajcmqqcqxm-7v18kaeme5nbvnmcspv-...@mail.gmail.com
