OK It appears I misunderstood Parabola somehow. Thanks for the replies! :) One remaining question I have there is: if everything in Parabola repositories is free, then what is the point of the your-freedom package?
But I don't want to discuss that too much on fsf-collab-discuss - we can resume on a Parabola list (I subscribe to dev). May I redirect this topic to my question pertaining to Debian: Can Debian achieve FSF's view of being a free distribution (relatively easily) by doing something akin to a your-freedom package? On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 5:15 AM, Luke T.Shumaker <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Parabola currently does nothing about the AUR, but there is a feature >> > request for dealing with it in their bug tracker. >> >> AUR isn't a part of Parabola, the only recommendation of it I noticed is >> a script that fetches a package from it, checking if it's known to be >> nonfree (or depending on nonfree packages) and asks the user to check if >> it's free. I believe such a script might be ok. > > I believe you are referring to the `aur` script that is part of > libretools. The script is not meant to be used by 'normal users', but > by Parabola packagers (like all of the libretools package). > > On that note, should we patch wget and gcc to warn to make sure that > what you're downloading and compiling is free? :) > >> >> > Why does the FSF endorse Parabola given the situation above where >> > nonfree packages are available? >> >> These packages aren't included in the distro and they aren't recommended >> (unless you can show a specific example of this, there might be bugs). >> You can install nonfree software using any distro, the availability of >> external repositories with nonfree packages doesn't affect the >> endorsement (as also the Fedora comment suggests and other distros on >> the list). > > We now have two separate bug trackers for bug-bugs and freedom-related > bugs. However, on the old bug tracker, anything freedom-related was > automatically 'critical'; more important than actual bugs. If you know > of any nonfree non-free code that is available from our repositories, > please let us know. > >> (Ccing the Parabola development list, since this suggests the >> documentation being misleading and probably other contributors >> understand these issues better than me.) > > Happy hacking! > ~ Luke Shumaker _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabolagnulinux.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
