On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 10:23:51AM -0300, Adonay Felipe Nogueira via libreplanet-discuss wrote: > Em 31/10/2020 04:57, Jean Louis escreveu: > > I have not verified each system distribution and I do not think that > > the approach to simply remove packages that could go to non-free > > repositories is the best approach. I do not say it is not right, I say > > it is not best approach. > > Indeed, but in the other exteme (making GNU FSDG-compliant repositories > for these package managers) requires time, extra knowledge on the > intricacies of each package manager and preferably a coordination to > have all free/libre system distributions contribute to it. > > > Best approach would be to bundle or prepare package repositories or > > packages of let us say npm in the distribution itself. Better is > > Indeed, some Python/Rust/NodeJS packages are already available in most > free/libre system distributions in the form of the distributios' native > packaging system.
This is actually the better approach. A distro should know better how it wants to install a software than a general use package manager. For development, tools like pip, npm and others works fine, but into a production/release level, maintainers should just release the tarball and let people package themself. _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
