-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:44:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > Debian guarentees that everything in it's main distribution is free, which > > makes preprending -free to package names quite pointless. The gimp package > > suggests gimp-nonfree, which means that if you use dselect or any other > > reasonable tool for selecting gimp, and you have set up your system to > > access the nbon-free archives, you will be shown gimp-nonfree when you > > select gimp for installation. > > Really? > > peon:~# apt-get install gimp > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > gimp > [...] > > gimp-nonfree is definitely available (it's reinstalling right now). > But I already knew about it. I remember finding out about it being a > PITA, though. For those of us who don't spend our free time reading > package dependencies, the name "gimp" doesn't suggest there's a > "gimp-nonfree" any more than "shellutils" suggests a > "shellutils-nonfree". Dselect will prompt you for every sugested and recommended package, which is not installed (apt-get don't, one could file a wishlist-bug against apt, who about an comand line option to show not installed, suggested packages, something like 'apt-get show-suggested gimp' in this case). But when using dselect you don't have to look at the dependencies. > [...] Martin - -- If Windows is the answer, can we please have the problem back? For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBODQUfLCGSMW7I2etAQEUXgP/XfN0C10zVKUxEWMWVG2NF4cYME1KeKsH BGY7M5AhWV0lxsT+zbVKe+4OU8vdoUG37qvnKwWVT0q7oyzFxj7hZzhom6AfuSsk hIoUPCwlpGC9dEXsVafYclBjcg2g6CG8t+Dq0botQsrClDvFxSUHXHo35i5G8NI1 usHxzc4zCIQ= =ZJxk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
