Re: Proposal for Outreachy (May-August 2020)

[Jan <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl>]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 12:40:52 +0200
Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> wrote:

> 
> For better or worse Gnome is the dominant desktop in the GNU/Linux
> market space and we do have it packaged and offer it as part of our
> default desktop example. Furthermore Raghav has already been working
> on making Gnome better in Guix.
> 
> As far as the privacy concerns, those can be addressed on a
> package-by-package basis but shouldn't be cause to skip it entirely.
> 

I only hope fixing those issues won't take more effort than maintaining
our own thing/better alternative one day. It's fine when you can just
use configure flags to disable bad features during build time, but what
if they start adding proprietary parts to systemd and GNOME will use it
even harder? systemd is LGPL'd after all. 

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.


Jan Wielkiewicz