From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Christopher Lemmer Webber Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Rename GNU fdisk to GUILE diskutils Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 07:55:51 -0600 Message-ID: <87mv2dbj14.fsf@dustycloud.org> References: <87609gggj8.fsf@yahoo.it> <5A301BE7.9000309@centurylink.net> <20171212194859.606355f0@capac> <87wp1rwlzy.fsf@yahoo.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1513778138 1976 195.159.176.226 (20 Dec 2017 13:55:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:55:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 0.9.18; emacs 25.3.1 Cc: mentors@gnu.org, david@altosw.be, ericbavier@centurylink.net, guile-devel@gnu.org, mail.kristian@yahoo.it To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 20 14:55:34 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eReqH-0007tz-Vr for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:55:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52730 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eResA-0004vA-2v for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:57:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45297) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eRerp-0004p6-RF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:57:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eRerS-00037T-4L for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:57:05 -0500 Original-Received: from dustycloud.org ([50.116.34.160]:47872) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eRerR-00035i-V1; Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:56:42 -0500 Original-Received: from oolong (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dustycloud.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7CBD32667E; Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:56:39 -0500 (EST) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 50.116.34.160 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:19444 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ 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. ]]] > > > I'm sorry but I do not agree. Guile is not an implementation detail in > > this case. It means that the package is based on Guile. It's like xterm > > (a terminal for x window), gnome-terminal (a terminal based on the GNOME > > framework) and so on. > > The reason this is not just an implementation detail, > according to Christian, is that the dependence on Guile affects prerequisites. > He thinks it would be inconvenient to put Guile-dependent programs > and non-Guile-dependent programs together in one package. > > What do the rest of you think about this? I think that if the package maintainer feels strongly about this, it's reasonable to give them some leverage to rename the package.