From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:35:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrzvbs8a.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1NSGH1-00040B-Le@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:45:03 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Indeed, Gentoo also ships non-free packages and has no simple
> switch to tell the package manager to never install non-free
> packages. But at least when installing a package, you can easily
> get a list of it and its dependencies including the licenses.
>
> This enables you to achieve, with a lot of effort,
> what free distros do automatically.
Please have a look at Jonas' and Ulrich's messages [1]. I wasn't aware
of the new Gentoo mechanism of accepting only free licenses. With that,
you can have a completely free system with no effort.
Bye,
Tassilo
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[1] Message-ID: <201bac3a1001051610t25a1a767v79398943193c3e89@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <19267.87.538073.863392@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-28 17:04 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please! Alan Mackenzie
2009-12-28 21:14 ` Karl Fogel
2009-12-28 23:05 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-12-29 20:08 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-12-29 20:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-12-29 20:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-12-29 23:49 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-12-31 12:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-12-31 17:04 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-01-03 17:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-01-03 18:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-03 21:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-01-04 0:06 ` Miles Bader
2010-01-04 0:13 ` Jason Rumney
2010-01-06 13:30 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-01-04 8:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-04 16:23 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-04 20:42 ` Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages (was: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please!) Tassilo Horn
2010-01-05 9:03 ` Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages Ulrich Mueller
2010-01-05 20:45 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-05 20:45 ` Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages (was: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please!) Richard Stallman
2010-01-06 0:10 ` Jonas Bernoulli
2010-01-06 20:45 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-07 8:35 ` Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages Tassilo Horn
2010-01-07 22:49 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-08 0:06 ` Marek Aaron Sapota
2010-01-08 9:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-08 11:20 ` Marek Aaron Sapota
[not found] ` <20100108111454.GC1426@fencepost.localnet>
2010-01-08 11:56 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-08 12:44 ` Marek Aaron Sapota
2010-01-08 14:44 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-08 15:47 ` Marek Aaron Sapota
2010-01-08 15:23 ` Yavor Doganov
2010-01-08 15:57 ` Marek Aaron Sapota
2010-01-08 16:23 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-08 16:46 ` David Kastrup
2010-01-08 8:56 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-08 23:01 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-06 7:35 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
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