Options vs. Binary packages

[Dennis den Brok <d.den.brok%uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

I was wondering lately wether it was sensible to weaken the doctrine
of using the build configuration defaults from upstream such that
options preventing the package from being made available via FTP are
excluded.
Without looking any further, gnome and mplayer come to mind, which
are certainly popular and are currently not installable from the 
official binary package repositories. 

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Dennis den Brok