[gobolinux-users] Re: Firefox up to date

[Jonas Karlsson]

2006/7/28, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com>:
> 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.
>
Yes and no. I'd like a unified frontend, but with a third backend
added, that takes care of these "foul" recipes and installation
scripts.

-- 
/Jonas