Re: General Resolution: Removing non-free
>>"John" == John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
John> Hey, I've been known to use LyX. LyX is not in non-free, however. It
John> can continue.
You just can't install it, since the libraries it needs won't
be around.
>> Use a few PCMCIA GUI frontends that happen to depend on bxforms.
John> WRONG WRONG WRONG. You can still USE any of these things. Any of
John> them. And more. Debian will just not redistribute them. You can
John> write or use installers for contrib, or you can download them from
John> websites.
You have no way to demonstrate that the non-free software
shall even exist. Or are you volunteering to put things in place so
people can still install lyx? Huh? where the heck do you think the
non-free software infrastructure would come from?
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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