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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Subject: Re: The Nixpkgs Monitor
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:02:56 +0100
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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 02:42:47PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> A great initiative that we could get inspiration from: the Nixpkgs
> Monitor scans packages for updates à la ‘guix refresh’ (but not limited
> to GNU packages), and also for CVEs.

What is the limitation on scanning for updates only for GNU packages?
Could the same logic not be used for other packages that do not contain part
of the package version in their download uris, and maybe even others?

Andreas