Re: Access to non-free from aptitude?



On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:24:15PM +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote:
I don't know about this as I'm one of the lucky ones that uses Vim, but I
should suspect that those should be in main anyway?
Regards,

You would think so, but due to invariant sections in the documentation
they're stuck in non-free.

Cheers,
Tom

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