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

[Richard Stallman]

[I sent this message a week ago but did not get a response.
Could we get the discussion moving again?]

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  > No.  Unfortunately, I don't see how our work in Guix could help to
  > implement filtered repositories usable by existing language-specific
  > package managers, except perhaps to extract the license information that
  > we've recorded for our packages.

That informaton could be very useful.  If there are some repos
which don't explicitly say which packages are free, but you've
recorded this, can you make that information available
in some easily-parsed way?

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