non-free should just work

[Tim Schmidt]

Ummm...  Ok.  I'll take your word for it, but is there any chance you
could explain further?  Please understand I'm not in the business of
badgering you guys (in fact I think Warty is one of the best
distributions available).  Here's how I see things (which may or may
not have any relation to reality -- that's why I'm asking):

There are many non-free packages in universe at the moment (well,
flash at least, as well as the nescessary stuff to read / write mp3s,
and possibly more).  What's the matter with sticking another package
in universe that pulls some of those non-free packages together under
one roof?

This is a particularly odd e-mail for me to be sending as I'm not an
advocate of using non-free software of any kind, but I can see where
it would make many people's lives easier w/o an incredible ammount of
work (again, please correct me if I'm wrong...  I don't want to sound
like an ass).

So...  let the flames fly, I'm just curious.

--tim


On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:48:41 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 02:22:29PM -0400, Tim Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > Any opinions on the desktop-nonfree meta package idea?  It seems
> > something like that might save people some trouble (both on the user
> > and support sides of the fence).
> 
> If it were a simple matter of arranging for packages to be installed, we
> could do it by default.  However, unfortunately, it is not so simple.
> 
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