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: Sat, 09 Jan 2021 10:57:25 +0200 Message-ID: <837domij2i.fsf@gnu.org> References: <6193374b-a60d-ba82-91b5-afdede18e3bb@yandex.ru> <72871d3a-3b6a-d6fd-01cc-4248f817923c@yandex.ru> <801f93f3-8c1f-5f5f-6351-e1169bc309ae@yandex.ru> <83k0sp27f6.fsf@gnu.org> <83wnwolu2i.fsf@gnu.org> <835z48lf21.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1406"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, ulm@gentoo.org, ams@gnu.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 09 09:58:00 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 1kyA4O-0000FZ-LK for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 09:58:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42418 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyA4N-0006ik-NV for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 03:57:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47772) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyA3x-0006iZ-7p for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 03:57:33 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56933) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyA3u-0008JP-Cc; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 03:57:31 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2674 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kyA3j-0002IU-Js; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 03:57:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:41:30 -0500) 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:553 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: ams@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, > arthur.miller@live.com, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-tangents@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:41:30 -0500 > > > If you are making an emphasis on never mentioning "wrong" programs, you > > make a conscious choice toward ignoring them, as opposed to studying > > them and overtaking them. > > Of course. We intentionally, specifically, avoid mentioning obscure > nonfree programs as options to be used. Providing information about a program is not "using" that program. > (We may mention them to condemn them.) So there _are_ situations where mentioning such packages is okay. repology.org is a site that would allow us do that, by providing the information we need to use for the decision of whether they should or shouldn't be condemned. Therefore, I conclude that repology.org does a job that is useful for us, and we shouldn't refrain from using that site, definitely not as a dogmatic postulate some people here presented.