On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 05:20:37PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > No. But I am voicing my objection to a method that requires > serendipitous free equivalantrs of all non-free packages to > serve as a workaround.
That's just one of several options. We need to have a clean administrative interface between the free and the non-free parts of debian. Not everyone is going to be able to use the non-free parts, and not all distributions are going to contain the non-free parts. For the worst case "suggests -> enhances" mess, you could even create a single empty non-free package which enhances the free part and which suggests any of a suite of non-free software. This puts administrative control in the right place, yet leaves a clean interface between the part which may be freely distributed and the part which may not be. I think that's much better than creating a "Maybe-Suggests:" and stuffing non-free references into the DFSG packages. -- Raul
