On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 10:49:24PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Because [contrib is] useless without non-free.
This is untrue. There are items in contrib which do not depend on
items in Debian's non-free archive, but do instead depend on
externally available non-free items. Two obvious examples
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 07:28:29AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 03:28:23PM +0100, Giuliano Procida wrote:
> > [...] There are items in contrib which do not depend on
> > items in Debian's non-free archive, but do instead depend on
> > externall
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 03:41:25AM -0500, R. Brock Lynn wrote:
> Sven LUTHER wrote:
>
> > > Because it's useless without non-free.
> >
> > Ok, i understand, but still it is DFSG compliant no ? why then
> > penalize it and move it away from main into some server that will
> > matbe not be mirrored
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 02:38:15AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 10:25:04AM +0100, Giuliano Procida wrote:
[attribution lost] wrote:
> > > Why don't we just get rid of the 'contrib' distinction altogether
> > > and put it all in main
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 03:53:56AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 07:59:07PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > Foo Emulator: used for development of a free OS for platform Foo (I do
> >
> > > Foo Frontend: used with development versions of free alternatives to
> >
> > > Fo
On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 11:08:22AM +0900, Ionutz Borcoman wrote:
> Contrib shouldn't go in main for a very simple reason: all those
> packages will not install because of missing dependencies.
This is not true. (Would people please stop saying this!) Contrib
contains software that has some depende
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