Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [libreplanet-discuss] programming language package manager

[Ludovic Courtès]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> skribis:

>   > In Guix we try to address it by importing package definitions from those
>   > repositories (pip, RubyGem, Hackage, CPAN, etc. but also ELPA) into Guix
>   > itself, with tools to do that semi-automatically:
>
> Does this mean that you have already implemented means to filter those
> repositories and make free-only repositories from them?

No, we just review things manually.

> However, those languages already have their package management, and
> many users use them.  I think users whose interest is a particular
> language will tend to continue using its package management
> facilities.
>
> So we need to handle the filtering for those language-specific package
> management facilities _also_.

Agreed.

Ludo’.