Thomas Bushnell BSG writes: > Look, if the position is that ndiswrapper is, at present, only useful > with non-free software, but it should, even so, be in Debian main, I'm > prepared to entertain that possibility. But I can't even figure out > what you *are* saying, because everytime I ask, people start getting > cagey.
Looking at the first packages alphabetically in (main/)admin, one could ask the same question of a great many packages. The aboot* packages assume you have DEC/HP's SRM firmware on your machine. acorn-fdisk assumes that you have the Acorn RISC OS. acpid assumes you have an ACPI-compatible BIOS. adtool is for a piece of software written by Microsoft, identified by a trademark registered to Microsoft. What is the difference between ndiswrapper and these tools that assume or require you have non-free software in your system, and are written to let Debian interoperate with that non-free software? Michael Poole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
