Craig Small wrote: >On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:50:57PM +0200, Detlef Niehof wrote: >> I still don't understand, however, what's the point of >> listing vendors that distribute "contrib"? After all, >> "Official CD/DVD" means that "contrib" is always >> included. I can only guess that the "contrib" tag is >Official CD is packages found in main, ie they are DFSG-free. >Contrib is a special CD that has packages found in contrib.
Not quite, no. The official sets contain a substantial chunk of contrib (222 out of 249 packages for i386) - only packages with missing dependencies are left out. >I suppose we could combine the non-free and contrib CD or just call it >"other stuff". It's probably one for the CD vendors themselves to >determine as it is probably there now for historical reasons. I'd drop the mention of contrib altogether, to be honest. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]