Re: [PROPOSAL] Builder, a build system integration for Emacs

[Po Lu]

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

> You are spreading FUD.  When you want to compile, say, Emacs, you need
> to either download the binaries of the libraries that are not yet
> available locally and their headers, or download the source of these
> libraries and build them.  Doing that does not "donwload half of the
> Internet".  After this you need to run the "configure" script which
> checks which libraries (and sometimes which versions of these
> libraries) are available.
>
> Cargo does all that for you.
>
>>
>> Can we call this pattern neo-proprietary?
>>
>
> No, we cannot.  There is no relation whatsoever between software
> proprietariness and this elegant solution to the problem of library
> dependencies.

The GNU project has had a long standing objection to package
repositories which include non-free software.  For this exact reason,
Debian, which itself is 100% free software, is not considered an FSF
endorsed operating system.

gnu-misc-discuss is the place to debate this policy, not here.