From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 01:45:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87im8jb6uq.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> <87h7o29p12.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> <6193374b-a60d-ba82-91b5-afdede18e3bb@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9635"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ams@gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru, ulm@gentoo.org, bugs@gnu.support, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 05 07:51:26 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kwgBi-0002PL-5w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 07:51:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39644 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwgBg-0003kS-Tw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 01:51:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53698) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwg6A-00084C-Ly for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 01:45:42 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55468) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwg6A-0000bt-Bs; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 01:45:42 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kwg66-00066h-Le; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 01:45:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Ulrich Mueller on Mon, 04 Jan 2021 16:00:03 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:262502 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Whereas Repology provides lists of packages and > their versions, with the info being obtained from various repositories > in an automated way. Is Repology a Lisp program? Is Repology a list of packages and their versions? Is it both, packaged together? What makes it useful? Supposing there were no nonfree Elisp packages in the world, why would you want something like Repology? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)