From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages (was: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please!) Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:45:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20091228170401.GA4553@muc.de> <4B3939AB.7070501@harpegolden.net> <20091229200832.GA5097@muc.de> <20091229205734.GB5097@muc.de> <4B3A957B.9050106@harpegolden.net> <20091231120648.GA2801@muc.de> <4B3CD9A9.9030705@harpegolden.net> <20100103173342.GA1653@muc.de> <87bphbf3zy.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <20100103215647.GC1653@muc.de> <87637i709n.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87ocl9wqjp.fsf_-_@thinkpad.tsdh.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262735784 14044 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2010 23:56:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 23:56:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 00:56:17 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NSJG1-00077x-Jo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:56:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56897 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSJ9q-0005sv-CH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:49:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSGH8-00013A-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:45:10 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSGH3-0000uo-BQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:45:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39570 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSGH3-0000uX-4v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:45:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:38355) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSGH1-0006yI-RH; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:45:03 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NSGH1-00040B-Le; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:45:03 -0500 In-reply-to: <87ocl9wqjp.fsf_-_@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (message from Tassilo Horn on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:42:02 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:119474 Archived-At: Indeed, Gentoo also ships non-free packages and has no simple switch to tell the package manager to never install non-free packages. But at least when installing a package, you can easily get a list of it and its dependencies including the licenses. This enables you to achieve, with a lot of effort, what free distros do automatically.