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== Introduction ==
 
== Introduction ==
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While distributions typically have high quality packages that work fine, a lot of software is not packaged in distributions.
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This often lead users to rely on third party package managers that are often provided by the distribution.
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This page tries to summarize the research about such third party package managers, especially to understand which one can be added in or kept in FSDG compliant distributions, and which ones should be removed or replaced.
  
 
== FSDG compliant repositories ==
 
== FSDG compliant repositories ==

Revision as of 07:06, 22 July 2022

Introduction

While distributions typically have high quality packages that work fine, a lot of software is not packaged in distributions.

This often lead users to rely on third party package managers that are often provided by the distribution.

This page tries to summarize the research about such third party package managers, especially to understand which one can be added in or kept in FSDG compliant distributions, and which ones should be removed or replaced.

FSDG compliant repositories

This contains lists of FSDG compliant repositories.

Repository type FSDG compliant implementations
Browser addons See BrowserAddons
General purpose package manager on top of existing distributions

Research

Repository name Repository type Licenses requirements Reliability of license fields
cabal Haskell FLOSS license required, points to FSF and OSI for the licenses list ?
CPAN Perl Allow any license (including nonfree software) ?
PECL PHP Allow nonfree software, GPL and LGPLv3 (libraries?) not accepted ?
pip Python Allow any license (including nonfree software) ?
rubygems Ruby Allow any license (including nonfree software) ?
? Rust ? ?

Parabola has a bug report (bug #1035) about programming language package managers, it has more reference and information on the issue.

List of pages

This set of pages talks about external repositories.


(Note that this page does not automatically update; if you add another page under Hardware/, make sure to refresh/purge this page.)


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