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Re: The "free" debate (again) <sigh>

Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com> writes:

> I think the best way to deal with all this would be to merge all of
> the distribution (main, contrib, non-free) into one big tree and
> then extend the priority to include "contrib", "unmodifyable", and
> "non-free".  People (including cd-manufactures) could easily exclude
> priorities that they don't want to install/distribute.  Those of us
> that want a choice can have one.

How is this any better or worse than having (which we do now)

 dists/unstable/main
 dists/unstable/non-free
 dists/unstable/contrib

It's all under one tree, easier for people (including
cd-manufacturers) to segregate if they need to (and most do), and has
little effect on the user other than making them look in separate
sections in dselect.  Dselect (or its successor) could easily have an
option to merge these three sections in its listing.

The advantage to leaving it the way we have it is that, if nothing
else, it makes an important philisophical separation explicit.
Frankly, I have non-free and contrib stuff installed, as I imagine
many do, but I do like to be reminded which things need free versions.

-- 
Rob


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