I guess the Emacs manual and the non-free drivers will still remain in the non-free section of the repository. This is not changing. If this these packages were put in main, this would be upsetting indeed. I would consider switching to another distro, actually. I need to know if something I'm installing is free and a package being in main or contrib is a pretty strong guarantee that I rely on. I don't want anything non-free on my computer, and reluctantly tolerate the presence of the "necessary" non-free firmware blobs.
It's just that the installer, which also probably remains unchanged, will come with these additional deb packages available on the installation media. But those will still belong to non-free.
To be honest, this is the installation media I already download, so I'm not stuck if whatever computer I'm installing requires a non-free blob to function.
That this installation media becomes the default? I don't know what to think. I'm torn. I guess most people were downloading this "unofficial" installer, or the official installer and were downloading non-free firmware packages separately. These packages won't be touched by the installer if you don't want to, and I'm pretty sure the installer will warn/ask you. I can see why people could be upset anyway, I'm not. It's a hard decision to make. I think it's fine as long as the user is warned and can choose not to install and run non-free blobs.
Actually, the non-free firmware blobs will be put in a new non-free-firmware section, which is nice because I'll be able to get rid of the whole non-free section.
It's just that the installer, which also probably remains unchanged, will come with these additional deb packages available on the installation media. But those will still belong to non-free.
To be honest, this is the installation media I already download, so I'm not stuck if whatever computer I'm installing requires a non-free blob to function.
That this installation media becomes the default? I don't know what to think. I'm torn. I guess most people were downloading this "unofficial" installer, or the official installer and were downloading non-free firmware packages separately. These packages won't be touched by the installer if you don't want to, and I'm pretty sure the installer will warn/ask you. I can see why people could be upset anyway, I'm not. It's a hard decision to make. I think it's fine as long as the user is warned and can choose not to install and run non-free blobs.
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