Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the end, the contrib category is free software, so why not simply > downgrade it as a priority level, lower than "extra"?
I'm assuming that you mean doing this instead of keeping it as a separate distribution area. > This would solve the problem for our puzzled users as well as for the > developpers packaging software that is partially dependant on things not > available in the main archive, and the consistency of the Debian > operating system would be: > - guaranteed for packages of priority optional or higher, > - possibly conflicutal for extra packages, > - defective by missing dependancies for contrib packages. I think it would be very surprising to have installation of a package from the main distribution area result in downloading non-free software from elsewhere, which is a common case for contrib packages. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
