Dear Adam, On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:40:32 Adam Bolte wrote: > I concur that the repository is required for some hardware, but non-free > goes well beyond that. We don't need an Adobe Flash installer, or non-free > fonts, etc. I think we should either get rid of all those non-critical > packages, or spin off the non-free repository to some maintainers outside > of the Debian project. Then perhaps the Debian project would restrict > itself to maintaining those truly essential non-free packages only - an > only for so long as they are strictly required - and otherwise limiting > resources controlled by the Debian project to free software packages only.
I agree with everything you've said. You're right we have plenty of 'convenience' software in non-free which we don't have to have. However let's not forget about some multimedia content there which is not necessarily evil but merely a non-fit for strict 'main' criteria. Cheers, Dmitry. _______________________________________________ Fsf-collab-discuss mailing list Fsf-collab-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/fsf-collab-discuss