On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:33:25 +0100, Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> `Recommends' This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
>>
>> The `Recommends' field should list packages that would be found
>> together with this one in all but u
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:38:02 +0900, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> In practice I guess it's just going to mean that most people end up
> putting non-free in their sources.list, weakening the effect of having
> a separation between "free" and "non-free" in the first place,
I agree. And n
> I'm surprised there is still a misunderstanding. Debian decided that
> invariant sections were problematic (you will find rationales
> everywhere on debian sites). It is not Debian's fault if they do
> exist.
There is no misunderstanding. We simply think debian did something
dumb, that will h
Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Because Emacs is technically able to work without its info manual,
>> so there is no reason for a strong dependency on its documentation.
>
> Maybe it is time to look what the Policy Manual says about dependencies:
>
> `Recommends'
> This
Xavier Maillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>From: Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Jérôme Marant wrote:
>>>Yeah, after all, the social contract merely states:
>>>
>>> We will never make the system require the use
>>> of a non-free component.
>>>
>>>Now
Jérôme Marant wrote:
Quoting "Davide G. M. Salvetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I do not share your statement about newbies not using Emacs. However,
based on your above considerations, what exactly would be the problem
for newbies and/or experienced users with emacs21 and emacs-snapshot
being moved
From: Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jérôme Marant wrote:
>>Yeah, after all, the social contract merely states:
>>
>> We will never make the system require the use
>> of a non-free component.
>>
>>Now I realize what that means: "The system" does not require the
Quoting "Davide G. M. Salvetti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to support the request of Sven Joachim: I think that
> emacs21 and emacs-snapshot should depend on or recommend the newly added
> "non-free" doc package. Therefore, consistently, emacs21 and
> emacs-snapshot should go int
Hi,
I would like to support the request of Sven Joachim: I think that
emacs21 and emacs-snapshot should depend on or recommend the newly added
"non-free" doc package. Therefore, consistently, emacs21 and
emacs-snapshot should go into the contrib section.
> JM == Jérôme Marant [2006-3-14]
J
Jérôme Marant wrote:
Yeah, after all, the social contract merely states:
We will never make the system require the use
of a non-free component.
Now I realize what that means: "The system" does not require the
non-free documentation, although one could argue that its users and
develope
Michael Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've chosen the latter. That is, replacing Debian on my own machine,
> and no longer advocating the installation of Debian.
I am sorry to hear it.
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