Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 11:04:27AM -0700, peanut butter wrote: >> Hi, forgive me if this is a stupid or over-answered question. I >> just spent alot of time searching the last quarter of mailing >> list archives and searching Debian Package descriptions to answer >> the question myself but can't seem to find a suitable answer: >> >> What is the difference between Communicator offered through "contrib" >> vs. "non-free". Which naturally leads to: is one better >> than the other? >> >> With the just previous round of Communicator being released by Debian >> Security, the last two machines I have upgrading "voluntarily", as a >> "new" package, downloaded the non-free version of Communicator which >> conflicts with the (I suppose) already installed contrib version. >> Since I apparently can't have both, I have to decide between one or the >> other. > >The communicator package in contrib is a meta package that depends upon >the real packages in non-free.
There have also been two packages in contrib called netscape3 and netscape4. Those were recently removed from testing/unstable in favour of the newer Netscape packages, so you probably shouldn't need to use them. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
