Winetricks

Winetricks

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Hi Guix,

I wonder if Winetricks (https://wiki.winehq.org/Winetricks) meets the
FSDG and can be packaged in Guix.  It's LGPL, but might be considered as
way of promoting binary blobs.

Thoughts?

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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Re: Winetricks

[swedebugia]

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Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skrev: (1 mars 2019 16:40:08 CET)
>Hi Guix,
>
>I wonder if Winetricks (https://wiki.winehq.org/Winetricks) meets the
>FSDG and can be packaged in Guix.  It's LGPL, but might be considered
>as
>way of promoting binary blobs.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>-- 
>Pierre Neidhardt
>https://ambrevar.xyz/

If it does not include or link to non free stuff I guess its fine.
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Re: Winetricks

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Pierre, swedebugia, Guix,

swedebugia wrote:
> Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skrev: (1 mars 2019 
> 16:40:08 CET)
>>Hi Guix,
>>
>>I wonder if Winetricks (https://wiki.winehq.org/Winetricks) 
>>meets the
>>FSDG and can be packaged in Guix.  It's LGPL, but might be 
>>considered
>>as way of promoting binary blobs.

[…]

> If it does not include or link to non free stuff I guess its 
> fine.

If Winetricks is what I think it is, it's literally a vast 
collection of one-click links to install and configure mostly 
non-free software:

  https://www.howtoforge.com/images/how_to_use_winetricks/big/5.png

That image alone probably settles it…

Kind regards,

T G-R

Re: Winetricks

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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Alright, settled.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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Re: Winetricks

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> Alright, settled.

Some notes:

- As another data point, Debian provides winetricks in "contrib/", not
  in "non-free";
- There is winetricks-libre at
  <https://github.com/g4jc/winetricks-libre>

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Re: Winetricks

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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> - There is winetricks-libre at
>   <https://github.com/g4jc/winetricks-libre>

Didn't know about this, thanks for sharing!

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Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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Re: Winetricks

[Ricardo Wurmus]

swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> writes:

> Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skrev: (1 mars 2019 16:40:08 CET)
>>Hi Guix,
>>
>>I wonder if Winetricks (https://wiki.winehq.org/Winetricks) meets the
>>FSDG and can be packaged in Guix.  It's LGPL, but might be considered
>>as
>>way of promoting binary blobs.
>>
>>Thoughts?
>>
>>--
>>Pierre Neidhardt
>>https://ambrevar.xyz/
>
> If it does not include or link to non free stuff I guess its fine.

While I don’t know yet what the decision for Winetricks should be, I’d
like to note that this is not how we make this decision.  It is not
sufficient for a package to not include or link to non-free software,
but it is true that this is one of the requirements.

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Ricardo