On 6 July 2016 at 12:50, Bjørn Forsman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6 July 2016 at 12:27, Profpatsch <[email protected]> wrote: >> Free software doesn’t mean it is free as in free beer. >> >> There are a couple of (very good) applications, that are >> sold, like for example Ardour or Radium. >> They are normally distributed as binaries, but come with >> the source code (as required by their license). >> >> I think nixpkgs should include them as well (if only because >> executing the pre-built binaries on nixos is impossible), >> but I also think it is ethically questionable to skip the >> buying process. >> >> I’m at a loss. > > One improvement we can do is making it easier to run pre-built > binaries. Right now you have to create a Nix file with > pkgs.buildFHSUserEnv and pass in a lot of data[1].
And what about those new distro-independent packaging formats? appimage, flatpak, ...? It'd be really nice to be able to run those. - Bjørn _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
