Re: [GNU-linux-libre] dyne:bolic 3.0 beta1 - comments welcome!

[Sam Geeraerts]

Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>     Our script [1] for the Debian based gNewSense version may be of
>     interest. It comes down to creating a full mirror and then deleting
>     all blacklisted packages.
>
> Would be very good to summarize all the existing solutions for scanning
> non-free software, and then to try to build a common database.

You mean like page on LibrePlanet with links to every script/tool and a 
short summary of how it works (like I did above)?

> It looks like this is one of those cases where the same work is
> repeated again and again and again...

It's true that we (well, I at least) should look more at what's going on 
in other (free) distros [1]. On the other hand, various distros use 
different package formats and package/repo tools, so (as Karl already 
said) a one size fits all (or even some) solution is hard. Perhaps the 
AppStream project [2] (e.g. debtags and Xapian indexing) and distromatch 
[3] can make it easier to work together in this area. I haven't looked 
at them in much detail yet.

[1] I'll use the old "lack of time" excuse in my defence.
[2] http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/AppStream
[3] http://www.enricozini.org/2011/debian/distromatch/