ng0 <n...@infotropique.org> writes: Well I know that the Parabola devs do not use the AUR. Possibly because they think that whitelisting free software is easier than blacklisting proprietary software.
> ng0 transcribed 2.1K bytes: >> So a very long time ago I was wondering: What if we could >> take for example Gentoo's portage (and overlays) and process >> ebuilds with an importer? There is software on there which does >> not fall into our Guidelines by licenses, but there are many >> more receipes on there we can make use of. >> >> Ultimately we'll have the QA to check if it's compatible etc. >> ebuild format changes every 2 years (in theory, sometimes stable >> formats changed even between these 2 years) as another format gets >> added. > > Oh, and because of the (hopefully most of the time correct) field for > licenses we could even filter out incompatible licenses. > >> So we would "just" need an ebuild-reader which would process this >> from .ebuild (there's also .eclass we need to consider) to guix package. >> >> We could do the same with PKGBUILD from the Archlinux based systems >> and maybe other formats of other systems. >> >> Or is this an idea which could never be in master because of this >> systems providing receipes for software which is not fully compatible >> with the Guidelines? >> >> Just a "what if" question… >> -- >> ng0 >> GnuPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 >> GnuPG: https://n0is.noblogs.org/my-keys >> https://www.infotropique.org https://krosos.org -- Sent from Emacs and Gnus
