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Author: hellekin
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [Dng] A devuan "constitution"
On 12/11/2014 10:23 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html
>

*** Thanks for the reminder :)

> Some time ago Stefano Zacchiroli obtained non-free.org as a possible
> home to host the non-free repository completely outside of Debian.
>

*** It looks like it's working (I didn't test it though). So what's
missing is to remove non-free from Debian infrastructure. It's probably
a big task but one that Devuan can avoid having to do from the start.

> Regardless of endorsements it might be a good idea for Devuan to make
> a clean separation of what is Devuan versus what is not Devuan.
> Instead of hosting something in an unsupported section on Devuan
> servers it might be better if right from the start a separate
> infrastructure was set up for 3rd party non-devuan packages. Easier
> to do it from the start than to try to split these out later.
>

*** +1

Cheers,

==
hk

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