Re: in or out of the distribution (Re: An ammendment (Re: Formal CFV: General Resolution to Abolish Non-Free))

2000-06-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:53:44PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > > If you really want to show that non-free and contrib are not part of the > > distribution you should move them out from under "dists". > > f

Re: in or out of the distribution (Re: An ammendment (Re: Formal CFV: General Resolution to Abolish Non-Free))

2000-06-13 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 12:53:44PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > > If you really want to show that non-free and contrib are not part of the > > distribution you should move them out from under "dists". > > f

in or out of the distribution (Re: An ammendment (Re: Formal CFV: General Resolution to Abolish Non-Free))

2000-06-12 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, C. Cooke wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > to dists/woody/ > > main > > add-on/ <...> > > dists/woody/ > debian > non-debian/ If you really want to show that non-free and contrib are not part of the distribution you sh

in or out of the distribution (Re: An ammendment (Re: Formal CFV: General Resolution to Abolish Non-Free))

2000-06-12 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, C. Cooke wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > to dists/woody/ > > main > > add-on/ <...> > > dists/woody/ > debian > non-debian/ If you really want to show that non-free and contrib are not part of the distribution you s

Re: free, freer, freest

1999-07-02 Thread Bruce Sass
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Ben Finney wrote: > Bruce Sass wrote: > > What is the FSF, what does the FSF do that GNU can not, and why. > > GNU is a project to create a free-software implementation of Unix. The > FSF is an organisation set up to run the project. Please see the GN

Re: free, freer, freest

1999-07-02 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 11:43:10AM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > > A few thought from a non-developer with an interest in Debian's product; > > ending with a question/suggestion directed to RMS. > > > > Is it Debi

free, freer, freest

1999-07-01 Thread Bruce Sass
gestion could result in Debian becoming the freest software distribution around, rather than a second-rate distribution because it is missing currently important pieces like Netscape and ssh. Sincerely, Bruce Sass

Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org

1999-06-28 Thread Bruce Sass
wrote: > 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

Re: Moving contrib and non-free of master.debian.org

1999-06-28 Thread Bruce Sass
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