>     > However, if distribution D includes this "easier way to install" in

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>     > its ports system, by doing so distribution D endorses it and takes on

>     > the ethical responsibility for it.

>

>     Using the same argument I can say that gcc isn't ethical because it allows

>     compilation of non-free software.

>

> That isn't the same argument, or even the same issue.

>

> You are talking about what the user can do.

> I'm talking about something else: what the system distro suggests

> that the user do.

The actual real issue is that gcc has code in it to let it compile on

Solaris, and even on Windows.
That encourages users to continue using non-free software.
Richard, you are a big hypocrite.