On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 01:59:09AM -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote: > >>>>> "AS" == Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Me> So, am I correct in saying that the fate of the "contrib" > Me> section is unspecified in the current GR? > > AS> Yes, except that the constraint requiring it to exist is > AS> removed. The fate of contrib is a policy matter, since it's > AS> essentially just a question of "Which packages are allowed to > AS> have unsatisfied dependencies?". I expect it'll stay around > AS> for a while yet. > > OK. I guessed there were a few outcomes: > > * "non-free" in the GR was shorthand for "contrib and non-free"
It means what it says, so that one is out... > * the GR doesn't specify that, but we take out contrib so we don't > have dangling dependencies > * we leave in contrib, with dangling dependencies > * contrib gets in incorporated into main, with dangling > dependencies ...but any of these are possible. > Was it left out on purpose, so this decision could be made later? Yes, it's pretty much irrelevant. Note that contrib already contains many things that depend on the not-in-non-free Sun Java. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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