[bug#30380] gnu: Add dolphin-emulator.

["Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>]

On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 10:52 AM, Manolis Ragkousis <manolis837@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> On 02/09/18 16:11, Thompson, David wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 5:21 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
>>>
>>>> Nevermind. I am dropping this patch set.
>>>
>>> To clarify, is it because of freedom issues like Björn 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