Re: [Dev] [RFC] blacklist/your-freedom conflicts/replaces stragegy

2017-10-02 Thread bill-auger
On 10/02/2017 07:57 AM, bill-auger wrote: > is the case that 'archiso' necessarily installs non-free sofrtware ok - i suppose the kernel itself is considered non-free - so scratch that last note signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Dev] [RFC] blacklist/your-freedom conflicts/replaces stragegy

2017-10-02 Thread bill-auger
i can answer to 'parabolaiso-git' - i explained on this list a few days ago that the parabolaiso was never intended to be a VCS-based release - im not sure when, but the '-git' package is a relatively recent change - it was orginally 'parabolaiso' - updates to this project should normally be so in-

Re: [Dev] [RFC] blacklist/your-freedom conflicts/replaces stragegy

2017-10-02 Thread Isaac David
Luke Shumaker wrote : now I'm questioning more of the premise. Does it even need the libre-replacement, or does it just need a boolean of whether another package has that name or provides that name? Wouldn't that better be served by querying the repos than by manually keeping a .txt file in syn