From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56719) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ekBHR-0002cL-Mk for guix-patches@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2018 11:12:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ekBHO-0004qu-Bj for guix-patches@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2018 11:12:05 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:55963) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ekBHO-0004qg-7y for guix-patches@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2018 11:12:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ekBHN-0007xQ-Ry for guix-patches@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2018 11:12:01 -0500 Subject: [bug#30380] gnu: Add dolphin-emulator. Resent-Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <210f8200-d7bc-b88a-32d2-7db56d3afc39@gmail.com> References: <20180207214353.36366a2c@alma-ubu> <87zi4i31l7.fsf@gnu.org> <210f8200-d7bc-b88a-32d2-7db56d3afc39@gmail.com> From: "Thompson, David" Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 11:10:55 -0500 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Manolis Ragkousis Cc: 30380@debbugs.gnu.org On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 10:52 AM, Manolis Ragkousis w= rote: > Hello everyone, > > On 02/09/18 16:11, Thompson, David wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 5:21 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrot= e: >>> Hi David, >>> >>> "Thompson, David" skribis: >>> >>>> Nevermind. I am dropping this patch set. >>> >>> To clarify, is it because of freedom issues like Bj=C3=B6rn suggested, = or due >>> to lack of time? >> >> I can just tell there's going to be a lot of friction here so it's >> easier if I just keep this in my personal package collection instead. >> > > And why should this be a reason to stop packaging dolphin? If dolphin > can be packaged without the binaries we should definitely have it in > Guix. How will we be able to reverse engineer proprietary software, if > we don't have a way to test it? And besides there are free software > gamecube homebrew applications which can run on dolphin. > > David if you don't intend to continue on this patch, I will take it over > to try and find if it possible for it to be built without any > proprietary binaries. Sure, you and/or Rutger should feel free to modify it. - Dave