[Gnewsense-dev] Re: link in Lemote wiki

[s . boutayeb]

Hi all,

My suggestion is to listen to D--, the author of this page, who is certainly the
most capable to explain his intentions. As far as I have understod his page, the
reader has the choice (i.e. the freedom) to add the one or the other line to his
source.list.
Personnaly, I have added first the line with "main contrib", then I added the
"non-free" segment in order to test the "linux-extramodules-2.6.27.1-medan". It
showed me that/how the battery monitor worked. Those extramodules give
consequently extra-functionalities and this may be an indication of the
possibility to add later this feature in "main" too, returning back to a full
free repository.
To sum it up: testing supposedly "non-free" stuff, with the aim of improving
features, is one thing, endorsing another thing.

Hoping to clarify things

Best regards

Samy

Quoting crap0101 <address@hidden>:

> hi all,
> i see in the wiki, at page
> http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/Lemote#toc46
>
> these lines:
>         Add to your /etc/apt/sources.list
>
>         http://medan.cinnamonpirate.com/ medan main contrib
>
>         or
>
>         http://medan.cinnamonpirate.com/ medan main contrib non-free
>
> I think we have to remove that,  we shouldn't recommend non-free
> software (or link repo contains such things).
>
> by,
> marco
>
>