On Monday, Sep 1, 2003, at 23:44 US/Eastern, Matthew Palmer wrote:
Are you going to ask the same thing of non-free, too? (I'm not
disagreeing
with you, I'm just curious).
I think that's reasonable. Certainly I'd like to know the license of a
non-free package before installing it.
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:07:28PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
I think it is reasonable to require that installer packages inform the
user they are about to install non-free software and give the user an
opportunity to review the license of that software before proceeding,
though.
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Tore Anderson wrote:
* Ola Lundqvist
Contrib is a perfectly ok place for installers.
I disagree. If I have contrib in my sources.list file, and try
to install a package from there, I expect only Free software to
be installed on my system. That means I should get
On Sunday, Aug 31, 2003, at 07:13 US/Eastern, Tore Anderson wrote:
I don't like the fact that these seem to be (randomly) scattered
over main and contrib. Although the installer packages themselves
certainly are Free, I feel the social contract is being violated
when I have main and contrib
* Tore Anderson
Although the installer packages themselves certainly are Free,
I feel the social contract is being violated when I have main and
contrib in my sources.list file, but after having completed the
installation of a package from these sections, non-free software
is
I've noticed there's quite a few almost-empty packages lurking in
the archive, whose sole purpose seems to be to download non-free
software and install it on a users' systems.
I don't like the fact that these seem to be (randomly) scattered
over main and contrib. Although the installer
Hi
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 01:13:17PM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
I've noticed there's quite a few almost-empty packages lurking in
the archive, whose sole purpose seems to be to download non-free
software and install it on a users' systems.
I don't like the fact that these seem to
* Ola Lundqvist
Contrib is a perfectly ok place for installers.
I disagree. If I have contrib in my sources.list file, and try
to install a package from there, I expect only Free software to
be installed on my system. That means I should get either:
1) A fully-functional package,
Tore Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've noticed there's quite a few almost-empty packages lurking in
the archive, whose sole purpose seems to be to download non-free
software and install it on a users' systems.
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realplayer net
Iirc realplayer has been removed
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