On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 11:04:58AM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote: > This is where I disagree. I have been wondering myself over the last few > days, how many of the non-free and contrib and so forth have I installed on > my system? How many packages are *not* free? I think if I were to take the > time, I could write a quick little script to grep through all > /usr/share/doc/package/copyright.txt to find out which ones are free and > which ones aren't.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:21:59]:~$ grep-available -PX vrms Package: vrms Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 20 Maintainer: Bill Geddes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 1.4 Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin/vrms_1.4.deb Size: 4846 MD5sum: d3eaba04b05796a2d92cb41b97674749 Description: Virtual Richard M. Stallman The vrms program will analyze the set of currently-installed packages on a Debian GNU/Linux system, and report all of the packages from the non-free tree which are currently installed. . Future versions of vrms will include an option to also display text from the public writings of RMS and others that explain why use of each of the installed non-free packages might cause moral issues for some in the Free Software community. This functionality is not yet included. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:22:06]:~$ -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% "" (John Cage)
