On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:38:09AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:44:55AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Those installer packages are still in contrib, though, not main. If you > > don't want non-free software there's a good chance that you won't want > > to include contrib in sources.list either. > > I've always had a problem with contrib. I'm not aware of the criteria > for putting a package in contrib. But it doesn't seem very clear.
It's quite clearly documented: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-contrib You might want to read that in conjunction with the section above it, since the rules for contrib are a superset of the rules for main. > For example I think dosemu is in contrib, even though you can use it to > run Free Software programs for dos. I've used it with djgpp and emacs. See bug #101318. > This applies to a lesser extent to various emulators and game engines. Those are usually because no free ROMs are available. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
