Craig Brozefsky wrote: > > As a user, I would prefer if it happened every time. With apt it is > not really easy to know when non-free software is coming on too my > system unless I'm particularly astute.
How comes ? I use apt combined with dselect so maybe I am missing some points here. But I just re-read the man page of apt-get and (maybe I read it too fast) but there was no reference on installing new software unless you don't ask for it explicitely. So, non-free will be downloaded only in these three (3) situations (from my experience): - you already have the package installed (You made your choice when you first installed it) - you asked for the package from non-free to be installed (You've just read the infos about the package and agreed on the consecuences) - you asked for a package from contrib (dselect will clearly show you the depencencies). Can dist-upgrade introduce more non-free packages on the system ? Do we have packages that do this (depend on more and more non-free packages) ? The only flow here is that dselect can't tell you why the package is non-free. Can the dselect be changed to display the licence of the package ? Shouldn't be so hard (one more key-binding that will extract and display the copyright file). No change to the packages, thought an short note (that discribe why the package is non-free) to the description of the package would be wellcome. Use 3 different colors for the software from main, contrib and non-free ? Ionutz
