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Re: Any interest in making Emacs available on Flathub?
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Any interest in making Emacs available on Flathub? |
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Thu, 19 Apr 2018 02:10:42 -0400 |
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> I would like to have GNU Emacs available in the Flatpak [1] format.
We need to think about whether it raises any ethical issues.
What systems can a Flatpak package run on?
What software is needed to make a Flatpak? Is any of it nonfree?
What software is needed to run one? Is any of it nonfree?
> To get going with this, I have written a simple flatpak packaging [2] of
> Emacs, and based on a few days of testing it seems to be working pretty
> nicely for my needs.
If you've done this with solely free software, that answers the first two
questions in a good way.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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