El 6 de febrero de 2016 12:15:55 GMT+00:00, "Andrés Muñiz Piniella" <[email protected]> escribió: >El 6 de febrero de 2016 11:27:05 GMT+00:00, Fabio Pesari ><[email protected]> escribió: >>F-Droid is great for finding libre Android programs, however I do have >>an issue with their inclusion policy, and in particular their >>acceptance >>of "Antifeatures": >> >>https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Antifeatures >> >>I disagree with all of those compromises (except "Upstream Non-free", >>since they patch their version to be free) and I wouldn't want them in >>software I run (especially because, in some cases like Ads and >>Tracking, >>they could easily be stripped out). >> >>To be fair, they do warn users, so there is little risk of an informed >>free software user installing any of them, however those share the >same >>repository as the other programs and I don't think that's good for >>promoting software freedom. >> >>I think that at the very least, F-Droid should distribute the fully >>free >>programs from their main repository and if they really want to offer >>programs with "Antifeatures", they should be distributed from a >>separate >>repository that must be manually enabled (or they could ask the users >>during the first run). They already do it for the "Guardian Project" >>repository and this wouldn't be much different. >> >>What do you think about it? > >Agreed, it is a good idea, sounds easy to me like a user. But I bet it >is difficult to do and maintan. the gaurdian project repo is maintained >by the gaurdian group AFAIK. who would want to maintain an Anti-feature >repo? already sounds negative. >
I just realized that there isn't a distro package manager that does this either. nor do package managers warn you about antifeatures. OK desktops and laptops are not as transportable as mobile and Tablets. I would draw the line where it is, seems like there are other more urgent issues like getting more users and spreading the word. good idea though. >There are more and more apps now on F-droid. so hopefully the main one >won't look empty. > >But I think this should be mentioned in the redmine for f-droid. as a >feature request. -- RichmondMakerlabs.uk Ham United Group
