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: Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:06:38 +0200 Message-ID: <83pn2fkiv5.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> <23f3f74f-c3d3-ec74-f1da-d0416d026c0d@yandex.ru> <834kjslexq.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10414"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, bugs@gnu.support, ulm@gentoo.org, arthur.miller@live.com, dgutov@yandex.ru To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 08 08:07:11 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 1kxlrb-0002e0-Tg for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 08:07:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39308 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxlra-0001jp-W7 for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 02:07:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52456) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxlrR-0001jh-P7 for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 02:07:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49181) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kxlrR-00042W-1z; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 02:07:01 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1929 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kxlr3-0006x3-Fu; Fri, 08 Jan 2021 02:06:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: (ams@gnu.org) 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:509 Archived-At: > From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" > Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, bugs@gnu.support, arthur.miller@live.com, > rms@gnu.org, ulm@gentoo.org, emacs-tangets@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:07:17 -0500 > > I presented a practical problem I have every day in my role as a GNU > maintainer. Why can't you respond to that specific problem, which is > both of practical interest and of relevance to Emacs? > > Because I don't see how it is a problem that the GNU project is going > to solve. Nor is it one _I_ wish to help you solve either, because I > think non-free software is bad so I'm won't be helping with that. It > is also not a task that you must solve as a GNU maintainer, you can > fully ignore it infact if you so want to -- but that is up to you. How can I ignore a package before I _know_ that it is non-free? And how can I know it's non-free except by looking at it?