Re: [PROPOSED] Change package relations policy to remove references to non-free from main
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- Subject: Re: [PROPOSED] Change package relations policy to remove references to non-free from main
- From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
- Date: 01 Dec 1999 10:20:55 -0600
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87k8my8wew.fsf@glaurung.green-gryphon.com>
- In-reply-to: Anthony Towns's message of "Wed, 1 Dec 1999 10:45:00 +1000"
- References: <87iu2jn5xz.fsf@glaurung.green-gryphon.com> <Pine.LNX.3.96.991130142430.17179M-100000@wakko.deltatee.com> <19991201104500.B13876@azure.humbug.org.au>
Hi,
>>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
Anthony> FWIW, I vaguely do too: enhances doesn't scale particularly
Anthony> well,
Actually, niether does suggests, if we are trying to be
exhaustive. ZI can come up with thousands of packages that depend on
and enhance Emacs; having all these as suggests inemacs is niether
desirable nor scalable.
Anthony> That said, Enhances: is a nice idea, and, until dselect and the
Anthony> various apt frontends are fixed to not whine unnecessarily, having all
Anthony> main> ->non-free suggestions be forced to be enhances
Anthony> doesn't seem any worse than the current situation, and
Anthony> better in a couple of ways.
Hear, Hear.
manoj
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