[pkg-fso-maint] contrib and non-free ok to add to apt-sources.list?

Axel Beckert abe at deuxchevaux.org
Sun Mar 1 16:23:11 UTC 2009


Hi,

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 05:12:29PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 01.03.2009, 16:55 +0100 schrieb Steffen Moeller:
> > would too many of yours mind it unbearably much if non-free and
> > contrib sections would be
> > added to the /etc/apt/sources.list file?
> 
> I???d oppose it. People choose Debian for a reason, and the purity of it???s
> software collection might be part of it.
> 
> If people need non-free, they can easily add it. The installer does not
> replace a text-editor, nor does it replace getting to know one???s system.

Seconded for the very same reasons.

The only thing I would regard as okay would an option to enable this
from the beginning similar to d-i asking about non-free if the debconf
priority is not set too high.

		Regards, Axel
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