Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skrev: (12 mars 2019 13:32:26 CET)
swedebugia <address@hidden> writes:
The idea is to add to guix a way to inform the user that the package
they just searched for is not included in guix because of freedom
issues.
The idea is that when we refuse a package to be included we add it
with a short reason to this list.
Something like this
(issues
(package odoo
(reason "trapping users by withholding update scripts, see gnu.org/link.to.article"
(alternatives '(dolibarr tryton smbledger ledger hledger gnucash)))
I don’t think it’s a good idea to clutter Guix with packages that we
won’t add. There’s already a lot in Guix to provide free software
packages; I don’t think we should add “negative packages”.
That’s out of scope for Guix and could be handled by some other GNU
resource instead.
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Ricardo