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Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Ping

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 10.10.2006, 14:15 +0300 schrieb Vasil Dimov:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:54:36AM +0000, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> [...]
> > XaraLX is not part of Debian, it just happens to be put in a directory
> > on our server called non-free, as a service to our user. An important
> > difference :-)
> > 
> 
> Ok, what I meant is that Debian users can install it with a simple
> command like `apt-get install xaralx' (or something like that), right?
> Not downloading the source by hand and resolving all dependencies by
> hand.
> 
> Also it will show up if they search for packages like 'graphic',
> 'vector' etc, right?

That is true as soon as the user deliberately added the "non-free"
repository to his package source (/etc/apt/sources.list), which is by
default not the case.

It does show up in both searches, although a search for graphic is
relatively useless :-)
$ apt-cache search graphic|wc -l
1502


Greetings,
Joacihm

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