From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: repology.el Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:35:54 -0500 Message-ID: References: <801f93f3-8c1f-5f5f-6351-e1169bc309ae@yandex.ru> <83k0sp27f6.fsf@gnu.org> <83eeiwlsn6.fsf@gnu.org> <831rewldok.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27531"; 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: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 09 07:36:29 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 1ky7rQ-000740-UM for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 07:36:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35600 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ky7rP-0004Yg-WF for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:36:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56864) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ky7qv-0004WJ-Io for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:35:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54725) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ky7qv-00024K-0G; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:35:57 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ky7qs-0005Lk-VR; Sat, 09 Jan 2021 01:35:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <831rewldok.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 07 Jan 2021 22:00:59 +0200) 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:536 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Just saying that a package exists and showing where its repository is > etc. is nowhere near promotion, it's simply information. Please see the node References in the GNU Coding Standards for an explanation of why informing people that an obscure package exists is a form of promoting it. repology.org is a catalog of packages including some nonfree packages. Because of the latter, we don't want to refer the public there. This is not to say that using repology.org is ipso facto bad. It is certainly possible to use repology.org to do good things. In some cases it would be good to tell a free software developer about repology.org because that would aid per free software work. So if using repology.org helps you work on Emacs, by all means use it. (Did anyone here say you shouldn't?) But we shouldn't refer _the public_ to repology.org. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)