On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:22:41 +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > Will there be non-US CDs for the sarge release? ISTR that some people > wanted to get rid of them, and I'm inclined to support that: These days, > the non-US section isn't as useful as it used to be
Looking at non-US/main, most of it is already obsoleted by packages in regular main: --- non-US/main packages obsoleted by packages in regular main --- erlang erlang-base freeswan gutenbook kernel-patch-freeswan libcrypt-des-perl netsaint-nrpe-plugin (by nagios-nrpe-plugin) netsaint-nrpe-server (by nagios-nrpe-server) netsaint-plugins (by nagios-plugins) netsaint-plugins-extra (dummy package) netsaint-plugins-fping (by nagios-plugins) netsaint-plugins-game (by nagios-plugins) netsaint-plugins-ldap (by nagios-plugins) netsaint-plugins-mysql (by nagios-plugins) netsaint-plugins-pgsql (by nagios-plugins) netsaint-plugins-radius (by nagios-plugins) netsaint-plugins-samba (by nagios-plugins) netsaint-plugins-snmp (by nagios-plugins) pavuk pgpgpg php4-mcrypt ssh-askpass The remainder consists of a few rather obscure packages: --- packages in non-US/main I couldn't find equivalents for in regular main --- erlang-slang gutenbrowser httperf pipsecd tunnelv vtun zmailer-ssl Now that we have crypto in main, the only real use for non-US is for packages that are encumbered by patents in the US which aren't encumbered by patents in the EU. I am not aware of any practical packages that fall in that category at the moment. Ray -- Windows 2001: "Oh my god, it is full of bugs"
