On debian-policy and debian-devel, "Davide G. M. Salvetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Technically, I think the matter should be resolved by our installation > tools ("I see you requested package foo, that depends on package bar; > however package bar is not available on your source media (CD-ROM), > because you live in a police state that doesn't allow you easy access > to reasonable free software like other free country in the world do. > Would you like me to download the missing bar package for you (you may > be forced to move to another country if you don't)? (Y/N). Or > something like that, you get the picture. :-).
Yes, this is the Right Way (tm). It should be similar for patented problematic software as well. Install Gimp. "The package gimp requires the package gimp-non-free to use gif and tiff files because of [insert information about software patents here] Do you want to retrieve it from a country free of patent problems? (Y/N)" -- I consume, therefore I am
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