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Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Jan 2021 10:05:16 -0500 |
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Could you people actually read what goes in this thread before getting
on your high horses. The author already sent a new version days ago
which tries to filter out non-free packages (and I'm working with him
to refine his code).
'Nough said,
Stefan
Richard Stallman [2021-01-07 02:49:31] wrote:
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>
> You've brought us bad news about repology.org. Not only does it include
> nonfree packages with no effort to avoid them, it fails to provide
> enough information for us to easily filter them out.
>
> I see two ways we could possibly manage to use repology.org in the
> Free World.
>
> * Find a way to distinguish free from nonfree packages. I see two
> ideas One is to snarf the lists of free packages from Debian and
> Parabola. Another is to see if free packages list a license that
> shows they are free. You might have other ideas.
>
> * Ask the developer of repology.org to work with us to indicate which
> packages are free, maybe even provide a way to specify "show me only
> free packages".
>
> Does anyone have another idea?
- Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, (continued)
- Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Jean Louis, 2021/01/24
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Ulrich Mueller, 2021/01/24
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Jean Louis, 2021/01/24
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/01/24
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Ulrich Mueller, 2021/01/24
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Jean Louis, 2021/01/24
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/25
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, tomas, 2021/01/24
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/25
- Re: Org schemas we talked to be non-free, was: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/25
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/13
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/05
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Dmitry Gutov, 2021/01/05
- Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el, Richard Stallman, 2021/01/07