On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 08:50:35PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Please provide an URL to the place where Knoppix and Morphix > "provide free software in .deb format" > in a comparable amount to Ubuntus universe.
This is the first time that you have mentioned the amount as a criteria in this discussion. However, I fail to see what the point is here, whether a repository includes one package or 1,000 packages. > >Those organizations package free software in Debian format and distribute > >it. > Where can I have the slightes sign, that they *package* software which is > just packaged inside Debian and provide these packages anywhere in a > apt-get accessible archive? http://developer.linuxtag.net/knoppix/sources/ > >In most instances, the packages which are specific to these derivatives > >have not been incorporated into Debian. > Well, at least Klaus Knopper - please I talked to him personally in our > mother language - is convinced that this integration would be great. > Unfortunately there are real live issues which did not made this happen. I would be interested to know what the real live issues are, and whether they apply only to Knoppix or to other derivatives as well. > >Certainly you are aware of this, since you refer to work you have done to > >try to incorporate these extensions, so I don't understand your earlier > >statement that you were not aware of the existence of such projects, nor > >do I understand why you seem to imply that Ubuntu should be treated > >differently in this respect. > I was not aware and I am not aware of archives which store a really large > amount of software in Deb format by just duplicating packages available in > the Debian archive in source. The examples you gave were very weak and > BTW, even if there would be tons of examples: I fail to see the reason why > there should be something else which is just duplicating the work which is > just done. I was never a friend of the argument: I'm just doing it > because somebody else is doing it as well. So am I to understand that you object to Debian source packages being distributed other than as part of a Debian mirror? This still doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
