Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > I'm sorry but I do not agree. Guile is not an implementation detail in > > this case. It means that the package is based on Guile. It's like xterm > > (a terminal for x window), gnome-terminal (a terminal based on the GNOME > > framework) and so on. > > The reason this is not just an implementation detail, > according to Christian, is that the dependence on Guile affects prerequisites. > He thinks it would be inconvenient to put Guile-dependent programs > and non-Guile-dependent programs together in one package. > > What do the rest of you think about this?
I think that if the package maintainer feels strongly about this, it's reasonable to give them some leverage to rename the package.
