On Tue, 30 May 2006, Stephen Gran wrote: > Can't you just ship those ten lines in contrib, and the rest in main? > This may be archive bloat, but surely it's arch:all, so that minimizes > the bloat at least. I am not over fond of the freer-than-free holy > wars, but it does seem like this script is exactly the sort of thing > that contrib was designed for.
Please think about what makes sense. Contrib has been designed for free stuff which are useless without non-free stuff. So when you create a wrapper package to install non-free fonts, it goes clearly in contrib because having that package in main would advertise too much the non-free fonts within Debian (the package name appears in synaptic, and the description clearly mentions non-free stuff) and we do not want that. However in our case, this wrapper script is *not* a package on its own. It's a helper script for a regular main package. The purpose of the script is not to encourage people to use non-free stuff but only to enable users which need those firmwares to download them... it's really not at the same level than the other wrapper for me. The "freer-than-free inquisitors" will explain that this is only rhetoric but for me it's not. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
