On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, 20:48:40 EST, Bryan Baldwin <br...@katofiad.co.nz> wrote:
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> On 08/06/2012 07:49 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 03:50:23AM +0000, Clint Adams wrote:
(Trim a slightly inflammatory paragraph followed by lots of Comments from both
of you i largely agree with.)
> pasting FSF philosophy with every article of nonfree is inelegant. Why
> not take a copy of the Debian services framework (whichever services
> that might mean), reupholster it, and serve it up from a separate URL
> under a different name, exclusively for contrib and nonfree? That
> would take some effort up front, but then who really wants to troll
replicating debians infrastructure - excluding seving the packages themselves
for a moment - would take a lot of effort.
> through all the html or whatever and figure out how to put surgeon
> general warnings on everything?
It 'just' requires some conditional testing to see if the suite is called
nonfree. This is already done in most places so i suspect i misunderstood your
point.
> > (And please, refrain from lightly smash this down with "no, you
> > should delete non-free/contrib from your servers". That is indeed
> > the *alternative* solution, but for the sake of searching from
> > common ground, we need to be creative and explore all the various
> > possibilities.)
>
> Colocation could be done in such a way that the free and nonfree
> packages aren't part of the same structure. Which is to say I think
> one should have to navigate to a different URL, whether served by the
> same hardware or not, in order to browse the nonfree packages, bug reports,
> et al.
I agree this seems like a good middle ground, i would be interested to hear
what others think. I do have concerns about both the maintainance burden and
opening the door to other repositories trying to get similar treatment.
Thanks,
kk
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