Re: [gnu-prog-discuss] Re: continuous builds and portability testing with Hydra

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

>    It might be nice if the default nix packages list was libre, and
>    the special case was nonfree - as Debian and Ubuntu and others do.
>
> If nix has a non-free package list the best thing is to remove it.
> Otherwise we won't be able to use nix, since it would be recommending
> non-free software, like Debian and Ubuntu.

I agree once we s/nix/nixpkgs/ in the paragraph above (“Nix” is the name
of the LGPLv2+ package manager; the package list is called “Nixpkgs”,
see <http://nixos.org/>.)  Again, that’s what Nixpkgs-libre is about.

Thanks,
Ludo’.