On Jun 06, Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * Proposal to allow software that depends on software in non-us into >> main (currently restricted to contrib). >> ( This may be unnecessary given the recent re-org of non-us. ) > >I'm not sure I like this one. This would mean that main is no longer >self-contained, which I would consider a bad thing. I wonder if it This is wrong. main/non-US is still part of main. The CD sold in the US would not be self contained, but having to download the non exportable packages is still better than having to download them AND the packages depending on them.
>would be a better idea to move those package from contrib to non-US/main >so we can have both self-contained main and main+non-US/main CD's? It would not. Out of the USA there are no cheap CD resellers, so nobody would make main+non-US/main CDs and users would have to download even exportable packages. -- ciao, Marco
