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Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions
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swedebugia |
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Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions |
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Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:56:04 -0800 |
On 2019-01-16 19:55, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>>> I’d prefer not to add a feature like this.
>>
>> Why not?
>
> Lots of reasons.
>
> One reason is that pypi isn’t the only source of Python packages. Nor
> is CRAN the only source of R packages. There are also package sources
> that we fetch from other locations because of problems with whatever has
> been published on the more popular repositories (e.g. most of the
> rubygems).
>
> I also think it’s not the job of a package manager to tell you how much
> software there is in this world and how much of it can be accessed via
> the package manager. What good are those numbers? What useful
> information do they provide? I don’t think it’s good to clutter the
> list of commands (and the documentation) with features of very limited
> usefulness.
>
> I don’t like the ways it would work: neither do I want to store and
> regularly update lists of remote packages nor do I want to have my
> package manager call out to remote web servers. What about packages
> that are not available because they are not free software?
>
> (Finally, I don’t like the use of the word “ecosystem” in the realm of
> software.)
OK. Thanks for stating this Ricardo. Pierre, I'm fine with removing the
sentence with the number altogether.
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Cheers
Swedebugia
- Gauche description, Pierre Neidhardt, 2019/01/16
- Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description), swedebugia, 2019/01/16
- Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description), Pierre Neidhardt, 2019/01/16
- Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description), Gabriel Hondet, 2019/01/16
- Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions, swedebugia, 2019/01/16
- Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description), Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/01/16
- Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description), Pierre Neidhardt, 2019/01/16
- Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description), Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/01/16
- Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions,
swedebugia <=
- Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions, Pierre Neidhardt, 2019/01/17
Re: Stating the size of ecosystems in descriptions (Was: Re: Gauche description), Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/01/16