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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages
From:       Robert Millan <zeratul2 () wanadoo ! es>
Date:       2003-07-11 14:16:30
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:43:55PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es> a tapoté :
> 
> > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:58:54 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > One question: what's the point? Surely you want the best, not
> > > necessarily the GNU version (which might be an incredibly bleeding-edge
> > > pre-alpha thing, like for example mailutils was not so long ago)?
> > 
> > bleeding-edge pre-alpha thing... well task-gnu-only will include the Hurd,
> > won't it? ;)
> 
> Aside from the joke, we are talking about a package available also for
> Debian GNU/_Linux_, aren't we?

Fine, but then it can't be task-gnu-_only_.. maybe task-gnu-usualy? :)

> The name task-gnu-only seems misleading. From what we said previously,
> it should be something like task-gnu-when-it-exists.

IMHO when-it-exists is missleading also. Bleeding-edge or stuff we don't
provide still exists.

-- 
Robert Millan


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