From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 22:00:59 +0200 Message-ID: <831rewldok.fsf@gnu.org> References: <801f93f3-8c1f-5f5f-6351-e1169bc309ae@yandex.ru> <83k0sp27f6.fsf@gnu.org> <83eeiwlsn6.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37146"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, ulm@gentoo.org, ams@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 07 21:03:17 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@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 1kxbV7-0009Yw-KF for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:03:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37294 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxbV6-0003z7-M2 for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:03:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43998) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxbT8-00021j-Iu for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:01:19 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35358) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxbT6-0004cX-Hp; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:01:12 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4687 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kxbSs-0003Vt-Mi; Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:01:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Jean Louis on Thu, 7 Jan 2021 22:38:15 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-tangents" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.tangents:494 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 22:38:15 +0300 > From: Jean Louis > Cc: arthur.miller@live.com, rms@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, > dgutov@yandex.ru, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-tangents@gnu.org > > Software repository is promotion of software. repostory.org is not a repository of software. It is a list of software. > Repository package descriptions are promotion of software. > > The Wiktionary describes it as "dissemination of information in order > to increase its popularity" in the context of what we speak of: Where do you see the "in order to increase its popularity" part? That would mean to say something about the non-free packages that would represent them as beneficial or better than others or worthy of installing and using. I see none of that. Just saying that a package exists and showing where its repository is etc. is nowhere near promotion, it's simply information. > In general I am surprised that some people like or wish to get access > to descriptions of non-free software packages through GNU ELPA. GNU ELPA is not the issue here. The issue here is total rejection of software that dares to provide information about software packages which might not be Free Software. I explained why finding such information is important to me in my role as a GNU maintainer.