I have just recently stumbled onto this information and am NOT a Newbie. I been using Debian for many years. I am certain that many of you will share you opinions here. I only hope that those of you who are developers and package maintainers view these varied but "concerned" opinions an take heed of the range of experience indicated. I have for some time been concerned about the overall size of the basic Debian distro. I voiced that opinion and here will repost it. The Debian distro would be best served by limiting the BASIC distro to those main items covered by the GPL, LGPL etc. and in keeping with that, those should be kept to one disk image. I think that the items in contrib and non-free should be made available as downloads from any site willing to sponsor the space and should be allowed to be listed as Debianized or Debian correct applications as long as they follow the proper conventions of installation. In short to use the .deb extension they must follow the accepted installation convention. This is mostly a change in semantics, but it should work and keep Debian from "forking' into several separate distros. This is what will happen if the developers and package maintainers do not reach some agreement soon. -- AdVance-Computing Systems
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