On Fri, 3/20/15, Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:

Subject: Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?
To: dng@???
Date: Friday, March 20, 2015, 10:48 AM

Le 19/03/2015 21:15, Steve Litt a écrit :
> If anyone want's Gnome for Devuan, let that be in a "contaminated"
> repository (and yes, that's what I believe it should be called),

     Hi steve.

     As discussed in another thread, there are certainly other packages
affected by the big-brother syndrom, or other diseases. Therefore a
generic method is necessary to put them apart. I already proposed to
restrict the definition of "free software" with new criteria, beyond
open-source and free redistribution. Packages needing systemd library
would then fall by this criteria in the non-free repository.

     For badly infected packages like systemd itself, if they were
provided, there could even be a dramatic warning in the description, in
the anti-tobaco fashion, "Systemd is against freedom".

     Didier

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I support this idea. Put all the systemd stuff in a 'quarantine' repo with the appropriate 'use at your own risk' caveats.

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