On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 08:58:17PM +0000, Doofus wrote: > > In this case it hadn't occured to me for a second that something as > impure as a wrapper for a windows device driver would be found in the > debian package repository so I didn't even look. I'll be more > open-minded in future.
Hi Doofus, you are half-right, while debian does strive for 100% free software, there still exists other subdivisions in debian: contrib and non-free. There are debates as to where some software go and whether these should be part of debian but they are still there. ndiswapper according to some 'depends upon' non-free software (the windows drivers) and thus could be put into 'contrib'. If your sources.list only has 'main', you would not have access to these. Cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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