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On 2019-01-16 19:55, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
>=20
>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>>> I=E2=80=99d prefer not to add a feature like this.
>>
>> Why not?
>=20
> Lots of reasons.
>=20
> One reason is that pypi isn=E2=80=99t the only source of Python package=
s.  Nor
> is CRAN the only source of R packages.  There are also package sources
> that we fetch from other locations because of problems with whatever ha=
s
> been published on the more popular repositories (e.g. most of the
> rubygems).
>=20
> I also think it=E2=80=99s not the job of a package manager to tell you =
how much
> software there is in this world and how much of it can be accessed via
> the package manager.  What good are those numbers?  What useful
> information do they provide?  I don=E2=80=99t think it=E2=80=99s good t=
o clutter the
> list of commands (and the documentation) with features of very limited
> usefulness.
>=20
> I don=E2=80=99t like the ways it would work: neither do I want to store=
 and
> regularly update lists of remote packages nor do I want to have my
> package manager call out to remote web servers.  What about packages
> that are not available because they are not free software?
>=20
> (Finally, I don=E2=80=99t like the use of the word =E2=80=9Cecosystem=E2=
=80=9D in the realm of
> software.)

OK. Thanks for stating this Ricardo. Pierre, I'm fine with removing the
sentence with the number altogether.

--=20
Cheers=20
Swedebugia