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----------------------------------------------- Not a Silly-idea IMHO. Warmest regArds. ________________________________ From: Patrick <[email protected]> To: User help and discussion <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 7:55 PM Subject: [Trisquel-users] free-apt-get, silly idea? Sorry for a possibly ignorant and inflammatory post, I mean well.... I don't really know what goes into porting and recreating a truly free distro. I am sure the art work must be changed and the libre-linux kernel complied but I am assuming the only other difficult thing would be managing what packages get included, is this true? If this is more or less true would a "gate keeper" package manager be useful? If I wrote a synaptic like package manger and also somehow reworked apt-get as well to only download truly free software then could the distro just use another distros repository server? The blacklisted packages could be hard coded into the package manager. Silly idea? I hope I have not upset anyone, I am not trying to trivialize the hard work of setting up a free distro like Trisquel.
