swedebugia <swedebu...@riseup.net> writes: > The idea is to add to guix a way to inform the user that the package > they just searched for is not included in guix because of freedom > issues. > > The idea is that when we refuse a package to be included we add it > with a short reason to this list. > > Something like this > (issues > (package odoo > (reason "trapping users by withholding update scripts, see > gnu.org/link.to.article" > (alternatives '(dolibarr tryton smbledger ledger hledger gnucash)))
I don’t think it’s a good idea to clutter Guix with packages that we won’t add. There’s already a lot in Guix to provide free software packages; I don’t think we should add “negative packages”. That’s out of scope for Guix and could be handled by some other GNU resource instead. -- Ricardo
