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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Alexandre Garreau <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GStreamer xwidget
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 23:09:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1mqp2B-0001TB-8g@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3078729.DpKycgFFEj@galex-713.eu> (message from Alexandre Garreau on Thu, 25 Nov 2021 12:34:54 +0100)

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  > > We would have to trust them to place only free plugins in
  > > `gst-plugins-good' and `gst-plugins-base', and to document the plugins
  > > correctly.

  > Wait, it’s not needed to trust anyone.  There aren’t millions of plugins, 
  > maximum hundreds: it would be perfectly feasible to include the list of 
  > all of them into emacs.  The question is whether to *delegate* that work 
  > to GNOME, and the issue would then be when that list changes, what about 
  > updates, etc.

Please state concretely what it is that you're disagreeing about.
Instead of arguing about whether to "trust GNOME", please tell
us what exactly the GStreamer developers did.  Then we can  see
whether that solves the problem.

  > Btw, why whitelisting good and base, instead of blacklisting bad and ugly? 

There are probably lots of nonfree plugins.  Trying to list them would
be a lot of work, and unreliable too.

If you want to use some plug-in that isn't in the good list, you can
edit the code and recompile.  Or patch in the string constant of your
choice with GDB.  Those take a little work, but they are not an obstacle
for a hacker.


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  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-27  4:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87ee7cq2mu.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2021-11-19  2:51 ` GStreamer xwidget Po Lu
2021-11-19  4:01   ` T.V Raman
2021-11-19  4:21     ` Po Lu
2021-11-19  5:38   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-19  5:49     ` Po Lu
2021-11-19  6:19       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-19  6:37         ` Po Lu
2021-11-19  6:53           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-19 13:03           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-19 13:07             ` Po Lu
2021-11-19 13:22               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-19 13:33                 ` Po Lu
2021-11-19 13:45                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-20  5:07   ` Po Lu
2021-11-20  7:23     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-20  7:27       ` Po Lu
2021-11-21  5:19     ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-21  6:53       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-22  4:31         ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-20  7:42   ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-20  8:05     ` Po Lu
2021-11-20  8:16       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21  5:18         ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-21  5:27           ` Po Lu
2021-11-22  4:31             ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-22  4:41               ` Po Lu
2021-11-23  6:11                 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-23  7:07                   ` Po Lu
2021-11-23 20:54                     ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-24  0:32                       ` Po Lu
2021-11-25  5:32                         ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-25  8:13                           ` Po Lu
2021-11-25 11:34                             ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-11-27  4:09                               ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-12-01 12:30                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-12-01 17:53                                   ` Arthur Miller
2021-12-02  0:51                                     ` Po Lu
2021-12-02  2:47                                     ` chad
2021-11-27  4:08                             ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-27  4:38                               ` Po Lu
2021-11-28  4:24                                 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-28  4:42                                   ` Po Lu
2021-11-28  8:04                                     ` Yuri Khan
2021-11-28  8:16                                       ` Po Lu
2021-11-29  3:02                                       ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-29  7:31                                         ` Yuri Khan
2021-11-29  7:44                                           ` Po Lu
2021-11-29 21:12                                             ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-30  1:38                                               ` Po Lu
2021-11-30  8:30                                                 ` Yasushi SHOJI
2021-11-30  9:29                                                   ` Po Lu
2021-11-30 10:30                                                     ` Yasushi SHOJI
2021-12-01  7:04                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-01  7:09                                                   ` Po Lu
2021-11-30  4:09                                           ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-29  3:01                                     ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-29  3:12                                       ` Po Lu
2021-11-30  4:09                                         ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-30  4:36                                           ` Po Lu
2021-12-01  7:04                                             ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-23  6:11                 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-23  6:55                   ` Po Lu
2021-11-24  4:28                     ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-21  6:52           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-21 14:45             ` Arthur Miller
2021-11-23  6:09               ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-22  4:31             ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-01  7:07       ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-01  7:31         ` Po Lu
2021-12-01  8:30         ` Alexandre Garreau

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