Package: how-can-i-help Severity: wishlist On Du, 23 mar 14, 23:43:18, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Moving non-free packages to non-free.org would be a good way to highlight > that those packages are not part of Debian. > However, I wonder if we couldn't do more in terms of notifying users that > the package they are installing is in non-free. Currently, what happens is > that you add 'non-free' in sources.list, but then you kind-of forget about > it, and packages from main, contrib and non-free are just the same from the > POV of 'apt-cache search' or 'apt-get install'. It could be interesting to > explore the idea of asking for an install-time confirmation when the user > wants to install non-free packages.
Maybe how-can-i-help could show packages installed from non-free (and contrib?) under a 'would be nice if these had free replacements' category, though I'm aware this is more an upstream issue :-/ Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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