On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:45:01 -0400 Richard wrote: > Anyway, the right place for those discussions is gnu-prog-discuss, > not here.
with all due respect mon capitaine, i beg to differ - this is the most appropriate list to discuss these third-party package managers and their repositories; because most every distro distributes those programs - it is well beyond a GNU-only issue - this general topic began on this mailing list in 2016 http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2016-04/msg00070.html http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnu-linux-libre/2016-04/msg00116.html according to the gnu-prog-discuss mailing list topic, guix is the only FSDG distro, whos team members may participate - whatever conclusions are reached would affect all FSDG distros, so we should have a voice in the discussion - that is precise the purpose of this mailing list About gnu-prog-discuss: > This list is an internal list to the GNU project. Only active GNU programmers > and maintainers may join. gnu-prog-discuss is for those who would like to > discuss issues of programming that affect the GNU Project (e.g., coding style > or library organization). gnu-prog-discuss should not be mentioned in other > contexts. On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:45:01 -0400 Richard wrote: > Let's not rush into a discussion of Docker now. That discussion will > take time and attention. We do not know enough about Docker and its > usage to reach any conclusions. (You seem to know something about it, > but that knowledge has not been stated here, so _we_ do not know it.) gnutoo brought up docker; because he found a potential solution for it - to announce that on this mailing list is exactly what we hope all FSDG distro devs would do - im quite sure that he has shared everything he knows about it in this thread - not much is known of any of these; because so few people care to address the issue - that is evident from the fact that the discussion began in 2016 and we are no closer to a solution for any of these today each of them will take time and attention - i agree that it is reasonable to handle one at a time - cargo definitely needs discussion - that one is probably going to be the most troublesome of all; but this is the first i know of anyone discussing freedom concerns about cargo - i know that the hyperbola team has excluded it on principle; but there has been no public discussion that i am aware of
