On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 09:34:25PM -0400, bill-auger wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 17:37:39 -0400 John wrote: > > But saying the absence of published and > > shared free extensions/plugins/whatever and the presence of proprietary > > extensions/whatever means that a free thing that is already packaged > > should be unpackaged makes no sense to me. > > i dont remember anyone suggesting that - we seem to be kicking a straw-man > around - IIRC, i was the only one who suggested excluding it, but not as a > general rule - that was on the basis of work-load/desirability - it consumes > resources, with no indication that anyone wants to use it - like a shop-keep > deciding to stop stocking caviar, because no one has bought caviar from that > shop since 1998 >
The standard being discussed wouldn't just apply to Parabola.. it would also apply to other endorsed distros like Trisquel. Where it would mean ceasing to distribute a free package that is currently available, and that is not trivial for users to re-create. I don't know what resources keeping that package consumes, since Trisquel gets it from upstream, but I would be interested to know. I agree that it's any distros decision to remove something that is costing resources -- the question here, though, is whether distros *must* remove it in order to be endorsed, right? -john