Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there some statistics that users are confused? When installing > Debian a screen comes up and asks if the user would like access to the > non-free sections of Debian and it explains what non-free is. Perhaps this > should be enhanced and made more clear if there is confusion. Instead the > proposal claims removal is necessary. If users are confused, let us educate > them instead of attempting to remove from their sight what currently exists.
If the screen says what you said it does, then already there's a problem. Since non-free is not part of Debian, there are no "non-free sections of Debian", there are only non-free parts of the archive. Debian itself only contains `main'. Which means, in fact, that here's one data point for confusion. I could go over the posts on debian-project and debian-devel with a fine toothed comb and post a list of all the messages there which evince the confusion, including several from users who were very worried about "removing non-free from Debian". Thomas