From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gentoo GNU/Linux and non-free packages (was: 'bzr init-repo .' crashes for lack of module bz2. Help, please!) Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:45:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20091228170401.GA4553@muc.de> <20091231120648.GA2801@muc.de> <4B3CD9A9.9030705@harpegolden.net> <20100103173342.GA1653@muc.de> <87bphbf3zy.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <20100103215647.GC1653@muc.de> <87637i709n.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <87ocl9wqjp.fsf_-_@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <201bac3a1001051610t25a1a767v79398943193c3e89@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1262811619 2807 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2010 21:00:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 21:00:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jonas Bernoulli Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 06 22:00:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NScz9-00041Q-Se for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:00:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46795 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSczA-0003fR-3L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:00:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NScxx-00027o-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:58:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NScxt-00022A-Rs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:58:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60396 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NScxt-00021j-KD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:58:49 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:53925) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NScxs-00052H-J2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:58:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NSckZ-0006cK-7r; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:45:03 -0500 In-reply-to: <201bac3a1001051610t25a1a767v79398943193c3e89@mail.gmail.com> (message from Jonas Bernoulli on Wed, 6 Jan 2010 01:10:31 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:119549 Archived-At: Under the plans you described, it will be easier to omit the non-free packages from Gentoo. But Gentoo will still lead users towards non-free packages, which is a bad thing to do. See gnu.org/distros for more explanation about this.