(dropping the profligacy of lists) Andrey Rahmatullin writes ("Re: Automatic downloading of non-free software by stuff in main"): > On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 01:52:18PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I would like to establish a way to prevent this. > Why would the project do that, though?
Because... > > We should aim for most of the changes necessary for > > such derivatives to be in Debian proper, so the derivative can be > > little more than a change to the default configuration.) > > Why? ... we should aim for the above statement to be true for all reasonable derivatives. > I also hope that you already have people who will do the actual work after > the discussions will provide the architecture. If there is a core implementation needed (eg a library which parses a standard config location or soemthing), I expect to to write it. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.