From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
To: soheil@disroot.org, 46385@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46385: User awareness of Anti-Features
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:38:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c3fcd7974b4493d931d6a1f3e2175d86426c536e.camel@telenet.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f9b336f64b53e808ebb86880f5014569@disroot.org>
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Hi,
On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 13:28 +0000, soheil--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:
> Users should be aware of anti-feature of packages.
> It is best to have anti-feature tag in anti-feature packages so that user know
> which program has anti-features; Like F-Droid. Also, user should be aware of
> anti-feature during installation. And wherever this awareness is needed...
>
> An example is Telegram, Telegram is a program that user connects to a
> proprietary server, and users who know less about computer softwares,
> are not aware of the anti-feature.
I'll have to think some more on whether this is something Guix needs, but I
do have a partial concrete implementation proposal:
Packages can have a ‘properties’ field, e.g. from gnu/packages/bioconductors.scm:
(define-public r-reactome-db
(package
(name "r-reactome-db")
(version "1.70.0")
[...]
(properties `((upstream-name . "reactome.db")))))
Maybe add a ‘anti-features’ entry field for some packages?
E.g.,
(define-public some-twitter-app
(package
(name "tweet")
[...]
(properties `((anti-features x y z)))))
x, y and z can be symbols, e.g. based upon from https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/
* ads (I don't think any application in Guix has these?)
* tracking (should be patched out if possible)
* non-free-network-services
* non-free-dependencies (probably not allowed in upstream Guix, but maybe in a channel)
The code behind ‘guix show’ and ‘guix search’ would need to
be adjusted to display anti-features, and the ‘guix install’ code
should warn if someone installs a package with anti-features.
Greetings,
Maxime
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-10 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-08 13:28 bug#46385: User awareness of Anti-Features soheil--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-02-10 14:38 ` Maxime Devos [this message]
2021-02-19 15:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-09 21:12 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-02-10 16:53 ` Leo Famulari
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