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: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:04:22 -0500 Message-ID: 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> <83pn2fkiv5.fsf@gnu.org> <26475995-EEB8-4B71-8B06-A7B7B4C8A737@gnu.support> <834kjrk3ox.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="37930"; 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 Sun Jan 10 07:04:44 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 1kyTqF-0009iJ-Aw for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:04:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59518 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyTqE-0001xA-Bb for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:04:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56248) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyTpw-0001vt-NO for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:04:24 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43933) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kyTpw-0003mW-Bj; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:04:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kyTpu-0006Pi-4N; Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:04:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <834kjrk3ox.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:34:22 +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:557 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. ]]] > Finding the facts about these components is the bread and butter of > every GNU maintainer for a more-or-less complex GNU package. That's a valid point. It is useful to be able to find out whether package P is free or not. Is that the main reason you use repology? Not > being able to do this part of my job with GNU-endorsed free software > is a major blow. On Monday could you explain that to me? It isn't obvious. -- 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)