Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:00:58PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > On Monday, Sep 1, 2003, at 12:38 US/Eastern, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > > > >He might even be running vrms - and vrms > > >will not complain about the non-free software he has installed! > > > > Then file a bug report (on vrms). Perhaps it'd even be useful if > > installer packages somehow marked that they've installed non-free > > software, then vrms could look at that. > > Random package: > Provides: non-free-installer > > vrms: > Conflicts: non-free-installer > > Done.
won't work: you install the installer, vrms gets removed. you run the installer, and then dpkg -i the resultant .deb. you --purge the installer, and install vrms again. you now have a non free package _and_ vrms installed, and vrms _still_ is not telling you about it. -john