On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Ian Stirling wrote: debian >I like Debian's approach to distributing only gnu free debian >software. But taking out gif support in the gimp is debian >going too far IMHO. I prefer that the gimp is not debian >distributed with Debian if Debian can't leave debian >the gimp package intact.
i think its a good idea. if you need gif support nothin's stoppin you from not installing the deb and going for the original tar.gz from gimp.org(pretend the deb never existed) or maybe someone can/will come up with a non-free add-on to gimp to add gif support...who knows nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:15am up 87 days, 18:48, 2 users, load average: 1.45, 1.55, 1.54