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Autodownloading considered harmful

Posted Feb 14, 2008 15:32 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
Parent article: Autodownloading considered harmful

Debian's installers for non-free software are segregated into the "contrib" section of the
archive. Perhaps Fedora should consider a similar arrangement.

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