Re: Ghostscript Dependency Problem

1996-10-27 Thread John Hasler
joost witteveen writes: > Sure, that's the best. But a lot of Debian maintainers don't really like > "non-free" to begin with, and don't like to give non-free the same > prefferential treatment the main system gets. Then get rid of it. Do it right, or not at all. John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J

Re: Ghostscript Dependency Problem

1996-10-27 Thread joost witteveen
> There's nothing inherently unstable about non-free software, so I > think "non-free" and "unstable" should be orthogonal concepts. How > about a "non-free/stable" in which nothing depends on anything outside > of "stable", and a "non-free/unstable", in which anything goes? > Sure, that's the b

Re: Ghostscript Dependency Problem

1996-10-26 Thread Glenn Ammons
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > People seem to think that "non-free" is more stable than "unstable". > This is AFAIK not the case ("non-free" doesn't have the sabilising > time "stable/buzz" has), and therefore I don't know why people start > installing

Re: Ghostscript Dependency Problem

1996-10-26 Thread joost witteveen
> > Hi. When I try to install the Debian ghostscript package, dselect > notes that it depends on another package which is not available. It is available. People seem to think that "non-free" is more stable than "unstable". This is AFAIK not the case ("non-free" doesn't have the sabilising time