On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:18:31 -0500 Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:29:04AM EST, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:56:11 -0500 > > Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > [..] > > > it's generally available in non-free - no need to do anything > > manually. > > Maybe this has changed, but on lenny, I vaguely remember installing the > bash and grep info pages--among a few more exotic others, from gnu.org > because I couldn't find them anywhere in the repos, non-free included. bash info still isn't in Debian, even as non-free: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=427804 > > This is Debian, after all! > > I was under the impression that non-free was not Debian? A quick google doesn't yield a definitive answer to the question. I am aware that in one sense, 'official' Debian doesn't include non-free, but IIUC, the categorization of packages into the sections 'main', 'contrib' and 'non-free' is an official one, and that Debian repos do generally include the non-free section. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
