From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 22:34:13 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87im8jb6uq.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6388"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nicolas Goaziou Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 30 20:40:11 2020 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 1kuhKN-0001X1-QA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 20:40:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46770 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kuhKM-0006CA-Qj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 14:40:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42722) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kuhIu-0005ay-N5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 14:38:41 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:51675) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kuhIs-0007UC-QN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 14:38:40 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.210.145.196]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000029543E.000000005FECD73A.00004589; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:38:33 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Nicolas Goaziou , emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87im8jb6uq.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:262136 Archived-At: While I may find that package personally useful for research of various packages on multiple OS distributions, it is not for GNU ELPA, IMHO, as GNU is all about free software and teaching people about free software. Package leads or guides people to research packages that are proprietary software without giving any warning, at least in the lookup function. I do not find it useful for Emacs and alright for GNU ELPA as GNU is about free software and this package is leading people to various OS distributions that are not endorsed by the FSF and that provide non-free software. Additionally the lookup result does not provide license information thus putting all proprietary software available from various package repositories together with free sofware and leads people to confusions. For me this is no go for GNU ELPA. Jean