From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2021 16:00:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87im8jb6uq.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> <87h7o29p12.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> <6193374b-a60d-ba82-91b5-afdede18e3bb@yandex.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8231"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, Dmitry Gutov To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 04 16:01:59 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 1kwRMo-0001ul-Rb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 16:01:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41920 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwRMn-0003X9-Sh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 10:01:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50342) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwRLD-0002ck-Ad for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 10:00:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gentoo.org ([2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]:49743 helo=smtp.gentoo.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwRLB-0001TM-8e; Mon, 04 Jan 2021 10:00:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Alfred M. Szmidt's message of "Mon, 04 Jan 2021 09:39:19 -0500") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4; envelope-from=ulm@gentoo.org; helo=smtp.gentoo.org 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, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, 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:262428 Archived-At: >>>>> On Mon, 04 Jan 2021, Alfred M Szmidt wrote: > That doesn't really matter, the list lists non-free software packages > and users can easily think that the program is free software (since > there is no license information associated with it). That alone is a > good reason to not suggest it. > Since this web site does almost the same job as the Free Software > Directory, why not interface against that instead? That lists > exclusivley packages that have been confirmed to be free software. These are completely different services. The FSD is a catalogue of free software with human readable descriptions (and IIUC, entries are maintained by humans). Whereas Repology provides lists of packages and their versions, with the info being obtained from various repositories in an automated way.