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Disable Debian non-free in APT in the ISO

We need non-free for building (firmwares). But I don’t see a good reason to configure APT in a way that users may install non-free software without even noticing.

Except, perhaps, that if we disable non-free, users who actually want to install stuff, in a persistent manner, from non-free, may need to do crazy stuff (what exactly? would dotfiles work to drop stuff in sources.list.d? alternatively, can we configure APT to use another sources.list.d that users can make persistent?). Should this be blocking us from addressing the aforedescribed problem?

Feature Branch: doc/10543-dotfiles-for-apt

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Original created by @intrigeri on 10130 (Redmine)

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