On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:27:47PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: > Regardless of whether "works" and "components" mean the same as > "software," a computer's BIOS is a work, component and software. > Commercial IM and Microsoft Exchange servers are works and software > (and a component, but not clearly a component of the Debian system). > Packages in Debian clearly require those to function. Why not move > those dependent packages into contrib?
The bios dependency would affect every package in Debian, which would conflict with the part of the social contract which specifies "main". I don't know about where the IM/Exchange packages should be. -- Raul
