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: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:34:25 -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="10138"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, dgutov@yandex.ru To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 08:40:08 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 1kxPtv-0002Ul-3P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:40:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53354 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxPtu-0004Iz-6Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:40:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55492) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxPoS-0001PK-QO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:34:28 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50976) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxPoS-00021b-IA; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:34:28 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kxPoP-0001jc-EN; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:34:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: (ams@gnu.org) 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:262645 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. ]]] > It is a website that lists what binary (both free software and > non-free software) packages Too bad. We should avoid recommending use of repology.org. (This doesn't imply actively discouraging people from using it. There is no need to go THAT far.) If repology.el is a simple interface to repology.org, we should not recommend repology.el. Unless we can find a way to fix the problem of showing nonfree packages. -- 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)