Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Mr. S. Zacchiroli, Debian and gNS3...

[ben]

if this is the case, then i was wrong, of course. thanks for the
information.

but anyway in that case it is still the user who decides to use the
non-free stuff consciously, whereas the kernel is stored in "main" and
used to come with non-free firmware nonetheless.

greetings
b

VICTOR TARABOLA CORTIANO wrote:
>> And the installer doesn't ask whether one wants to activate
>> other repos or sections during installation.
> 
> That's incorrect (at least in Lenny).
> 
> The install scripts says somthing like:
> 
>       There is non-free software that was made to work with
>       Debian. It's not part of Debian, but it's included in
>       the repositories for people that want to use it, bla
>       bla bla bla...
> 
>       Do you wann use non-free software anyway?
> 
>                       YES             NO
> 
> This is explicitly asking if the user want non-free software or not.
> If you choose to use, Debian will activate non-free and contrib on
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> And, there are pointers in the documentation too... 
>