[gobolinux-users] Re: Firefox up to date

[Hisham Muhammad]

On 7/28/06, Sean Russell <gobo at ser1.net> wrote:
> On Friday 28 July 2006 08:53, MJ Ray wrote:
> > binaries.  Sorry, but it's not my fault that Mozilla gives us
> > a choice of "do unnecessary work" or "lose some freedom".
>
> I must have missed the first part of this discussion.
>
> Is there any reason that non-OpenSource software can't have a recipe in
> Gobo?  Assuming that it is free as in "free beer", then where's the
> restriction?  Or is this a different discussion, about dogma?

It's more a practical problem, since Compile is about, well, compiling
things, and most non-open-source software, well, has no sources
available. And there are, more often than not, licensing restrictions
such as "you have to show this 'I agree' message" and things like
that.

I'd like to figure out a good design for installing third-party
pre-compiled stuff. There's talk about a unified front-end to Compile
and InstallPackage that could also handle this third possibility.

-- Hisham