> I don't know about you, but I never got a non-free cd with my official > Debian cd's. Non-free has never been a part of official Debian releases > AFAIK. >
The problem friends lies in the fact that if support is withdrawn from the developers, MANY users will be left without any idea about what to do: The thing is simple, they will not know how to put the things in the right place, nor how to fix dependencies or conflicts. This is the meat of the problem for users. So, I propose that (developers, are you listening?) some kind of tool be developed for that matter. Otherwise, many will just start using alien, and then may be switch. I know that the feeling is that it is really not important, that many users leave, but, in reality, isn't the purpose of all this to facilitate the life of people and make it easier for them to have good working software in a sea of financial sharks?