Debian to cease inclusion of non-free?

Michael ODonnell michael.odonnell at comcast.net
Fri Feb 27 14:01:08 EST 2004


>> ...and in case you think no interesting packages fall
>> under the "non-free" classification, here's what I've
>> grepped (though I'm sure TMTOWTDI) from the non-free
>
>There's no reason to grep -- Debian includes vrms, the "Virtual
>Richard M.  Stallman" program.  :-) As you probably guessed, it'll
>give you a listing of all of your installed non-free Debian packages.


The vrms program only reports which non-free packages are
currently installed on the local machine while my grep
command reports all non-free packages known to be available.
 



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