Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> From talking to people over the weekend at the UKUUG Linux
> conference, I get the impression that there is a consensus that the
> plain swirl is nicer that the with-bottle-swirl, and that if we must
> have two logos, then it would be better to have the p
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 09:35:51PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote:
> [ I'm cross-posting this, because it seems that people managed to miss what
> is
> going on what with messages being spread across debian-vote, and
> debian-publicity. Please follow up to -publicity]
[I did not follow up to -public
I think we have a problem with the way the current vote came about.
[ I'm cross-posting this, because it seems that people managed to miss what is
going on what with messages being spread across debian-vote, and
debian-publicity. Please follow up to -publicity]
>From talking to people over the
The status file is on all Debian systems (those that use dpkg anyways),
the field within the DPKG DB that contains the information which
indicates main/contrib/non-free is not usually packaged within the .deb
file itself... it is found in the Packages files on the ftp sites.
Also, unless one has i
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Bruce Sass wrote:
> These methods only work reliably if one uses dselect or apt.
>
> The philosophical/political/religious status of Debian packages is
> usually only found in the Packages files, those of us who don't use the
> package fetching tools (too much overhead for me
These methods only work reliably if one uses dselect or apt.
The philosophical/political/religious status of Debian packages is
usually only found in the Packages files, those of us who don't use the
package fetching tools (too much overhead for me) do not have this
information handy unless we spe
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 01:29:20AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> dpkg-awk 'section:.*non-free.*' -- package|sed -ne 's/\(..*\)/\1/p'
grep-status -F Section -s Package non-free
;-)
And to get a list of all non-free packages currently installed:
grep-status -F Section -s Package,Status non-free |
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The programs in contrib are free, but many programs are put in contrib
> because they are not useful in an all-free system. Many depend on
> non-free packages to be useful.
>
> I think these programs should be kept with the non-free packages.
>
> O
On 27 Jun 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Stephane" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Stephane> (if I take over the maintenance of a Debian box and I want
> Stephane> to get rid of all the non-free stuff, I cannot, except by
> Stephane> reading every licence).
>
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