Propose this though the -policy mechanism... On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 05:37:15PM -0400, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > Although I tend to agreed with Joseph on this point, I also think that > the main problem is still the same as with the Anarchy FAQ: No other > cool place (personal web page is not the answer because is not part of > the distribution) to place this kind of stuff. > > So I want to make a Suggestion: > > Creation of a sub-directory aside from main, contrib, non-free named > data. > > The data directory will contain packages DFSG-Free that the maintainers > feel they can be useful to a minority of people or is too big to be > included in the main distribution. The main purpose is too provided > data that's is not essential to any programs in main but can be useful > for any user. Examples of those packages are: > - Supplemental themes (a default should however be included in main); > - Some not program specific documentation; > - Tutorials; > - Astronomical data; > - Foo-Scripts; > - Funny manpages. > > The following rules should be follow, however: > - No packages in main should depend solely on a package in data. > - The maintainer decision on this subject is just the same as with the > Section: field. It's a suggestion that can be override by the archive > maintainer. > - The data should only contain packages compliant with the DFSG. > - The data subdirectory is an entire part of Debian. It's purpose is to > let the CD vendors/archives maintainers/users choice between a Debian > Light who fit on a reasonable amount of CDs, and an Debian Extended who > can fill you're entire RAID array. > > The reason for a seperate directory is for ease of mirroring and CD > building. It gives us also an easy way to check if a package can be > on data. > > I will really like to see this one at least second. It's an old thread > that I saw reborn and kill too often. My english is not perfect, so it's > certainly need some correction but I think the idea is here. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Fabien Ninoles Chevalier servant de la Dame Catherine des Rosiers > aka Corbeau aka le Veneur Debian GNU/Linux maintainer > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WebPage: http://www.tzone.org/~fabien > RSA PGP KEY [E3723845]: 1C C1 4F A6 EE E5 4D 99 4F 80 2D 2D 1F 85 C1 70 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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