On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:02:09PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 07:35:44AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 12:10:57AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:53:17AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:02:43PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > > It hasn't even done that; as I have had to use Java from third-party > > > > > repositories at work for some time and have not noticed it being any > > > > > lower quality that non-free packages in Debian. > > > > > > > > ah, because you used it on x86. wasn't that one of the arguments for > > > > removing non-free ? > > > > > > Huh? I totally do not follow what you're saying here. > > > > See Michael Blank argumentation about non-x86 arch in non-free. > > Can you give me a URL? Finding individual arguments in this thread is > not easily done.
How, i see, i now understand how you can survive the flamage, you don't read all of it :)) I don't remember, but it is not all that important. grep is your friend though. > > > > > The lack of 1.4 for PowerPC is not really germane; Debian doesn't have > > > > > it for PowerPC either and Debian doesn't keep non-i386 archs in sync > > > > > either. > > > > > > > > And how would removing non-free from the debian archives help here. > > > > > > It wouldn't. That's why I said it's "not really germane." > > > > Err, another misleading affirmation, actually it was Steve who said that > > not you. > > Oops, sorry Steve; it sounded like something I wrote. s/I said/he > said/. I retract the incorrect attribution. > > > It is simply not possible to discuss people who are not honest and try > > every trick in the book to come out right, even if they are wrong, as > > you evidently are. > > Oh c'mon. Just because I made a mistake doesn't mean that I'm > dishonest. After all, you are the one that said your package has "0 > entries in popcon"[1], then tried to change it to "used"[2] once I had Well, you quoted numbers with lot of 0 behind, what is that supposed to mean, apart from casual readers thinking that it is not used, with the idea behind, nobody uses that stuff, let's remove it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
