On 2021-01-16 at 16:55, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/01/msg00151.html >> Very informative. > > Yes, I agree with Ted Tso's suggestion. > > I think the `non-free` repository needs to be significantly improved, so > that the user is properly warned/informed when something is installed > from there (in both senses: "is being installed" or "is currently > installed").
Nothing immediate for the former, but for the latter, you may want to look at the 'vrms' package. It stands for 'virtual Richard M. Stallman', in honor of RMS' role as the orienting compass of the Free Software movement (although its criteria are based on the DFSG instead of RMS' own views), and what it does is to scan the installed packages and report any which are from contrib or non-free. On my system (and I believe by default), it's set up with a monthly cron job to send an E-mail with the output of the program. I review that list every time, and there's rarely anything I feel I can clean up from the list, but it has happened a time or two. To the best of my recollection, I've never yet felt the need to run the program by hand. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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