> Brian, here in Germany, every Megabyte you have to download is costing real > money. A lot of money. Please put as much on the CD as possible. Declare it > extra, put it in an unstable dir, put warnings all over the place, but > please include it. > > We already exclude non-free comlpetely for good reasons, no question. But > why should we exclude free software, even if it is not production ready. > > I understand your concern, you want a stable Debian main Distribution. But > for special hardware, you need some components. Those you can find in Extra. > Some of these components could be a Kernel 2.1.x snapshot.
Good reasons, all of them. Do you know the answer to the second question I posed? > What do you figure to be the number of people who will want to use these > utilities with a 2.1 kernel that do _not_ have any sort of internet > access? Also, how likely are the current versions of these programs > to work with future versions of the unstable 2.1 kernel and the 2.2 > kernel that will eventually come from it? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian GNU/Linux! Search it at http://insite.verisim.com/search/debian/simple -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]