On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 10:06:39PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > need anything that's not free at all". If we put weaken Suggest or > > create a new weaker version of it we don't do that since we still > > tell people that there are non-free packages that can improve things.
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 10:39:03PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > But sadly, on occasion, this is the case. Hmm.. Go over to debian-legal and read the Corel threads there, then come back and tell me that everyone is happy, in general, about debian distributions which mix free and non-free software. And note that with Enhances: we still tell people that there are non-free packages that can improve things -- but the set of non-free packages is configurable, and not wedded to Debian. More generally, please don't mistake the current contents of non-free with future debian distributions: In my opinion, switching from Suggests: <non-free-package> to the reverse non-free Enhances: <free package> is very important for debian. We have a small collection of non-free software, but it's very likely that other organizations will build on our free software base and supply their own set of non-free software. Designing our system so that they can coexist with us is going to mean less silly forking of package instances, and that's a good thing, I think. -- Raul
