Re: [libreplanet-discuss] F-Droid's Antifeatures

[Andrés Muñiz Piniella]

El 6 de febrero de 2016 12:15:55 GMT+00:00, "Andrés Muñiz Piniella" 
<a75576@alumni.tecnun.es> escribió:
>El 6 de febrero de 2016 11:27:05 GMT+00:00, Fabio Pesari
><fabiop@gnu.org> escribió:
>>F-Droid is great for finding libre Android programs, however I do have
>>an issue with their inclusion policy, and in particular their
>>acceptance
>>of "Antifeatures":
>>
>>https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Antifeatures
>>
>>I disagree with all of those compromises (except "Upstream Non-free",
>>since they patch their version to be free) and I wouldn't want them in
>>software I run (especially because, in some cases like Ads and
>>Tracking,
>>they could easily be stripped out).
>>
>>To be fair, they do warn users, so there is little risk of an informed
>>free software user installing any of them, however those share the
>same
>>repository as the other programs and I don't think that's good for
>>promoting software freedom.
>>
>>I think that at the very least, F-Droid should distribute the fully
>>free
>>programs from their main repository and if they really want to offer
>>programs with "Antifeatures", they should be distributed from a
>>separate
>>repository that must be manually enabled (or they could ask the users
>>during the first run). They already do it for the "Guardian Project"
>>repository and this wouldn't be much different.
>>
>>What do you think about it?
>
>Agreed, it is a good idea, sounds easy to me like a user. But I bet it
>is difficult to do and maintan. the gaurdian project repo is maintained
>by the gaurdian group AFAIK. who would want to maintain an Anti-feature
>repo? already sounds negative. 
>

I just realized that there isn't a distro package manager that does this 
either. nor do package managers warn you about antifeatures. OK desktops and 
laptops are not as transportable as mobile and Tablets.

I would draw the line where it is, seems like there are other more urgent 
issues like getting more users and spreading the word.

good idea though.

>There are more and more apps now on F-droid. so hopefully the main one
>won't look empty. 
>
>But I think this should be mentioned in the redmine for f-droid. as a
>feature request. 


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