*Wichert Akkerman - Debian project leader wrote: > > The Debian distribution itself consists only of the main-tree. Contrib > and non-free are there mostly as a (popular) service to our users. But > the distinction isn't as visible as it used to be; advances in searching > in the distribution and tools like apt make it very hard to see when > something is in main and when not. Just using seperate trees in the > archive isn't as effective a method making the distinction anymore as it Moving non-free to another server won't make any difference with apt. It will still get the non-free packages transparantly. > used to be. > Will it create problems for mirrors? I suppose people mirroring debian will put non-free back in the same tree as main, if they choose to continue mirroring non-free.
I like things they way they are. You can easily have a 100% free installation if you choose. Assuring no dependencies in main on non-free software is currently working well. This is the most important thing to me; that the developers are able to easily work on a 100% free distribution. You can also easily add non-free software if you choose. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre