Group:Software/research/ExternalRepositories

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	Guix

The CrossDistroBootstrap also has some information on how reusable are some FSDG distribution repositories. For instance PureOS is now in upstream debootstrap, but other FSDG compliant distributions need to wait for a new debootstrap release, and they might also need to package the PureOS keyring to enable users to safely use their repositories.

Programming languages

Repository name	Programs / Packages	Repository type	Licenses requirements	Reliability of license fields	Status
Cabal		Haskell	FLOSS license required, points to FSF and OSI for the licenses list	?
CPAN	?	Perl	Allow any license (including nonfree software)	?
Hackage?		Haskell	?	?
PECL	?	PHP	Allow nonfree software, GPL and LGPLv3 (libraries?) not accepted	?
Python Package Index	pip	Python	Allow any license (including nonfree software)	?	Distribution Status Dragora Dynebolic Guix Hyperbola LibreCMC Parabola blacklisted ProteanOS Replicant PureOS Trisquel Ututo S
?	rubygems	Ruby	Allow any license (including nonfree software)	?	Distribution Status Dragora Dynebolic Guix Hyperbola LibreCMC Parabola blacklisted ProteanOS Replicant PureOS Trisquel Ututo S
?	?	Rust	?	?

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

Programs

Program name	Program type	Repository type	Repository website	Licenses requirements	Reliability of license fields	Status
Libreoffice	Document editing software	Extensions	extensions.libreoffice.org	?	?	TODO: Needs confirmation of the bug (Does upstream have licenses requirements or not?). Distribution Status Dragora Dynebolic Guix Hyperbola LibreCMC Parabola Bug #3412 ProteanOS Replicant Doesn't ship libreoffice PureOS Trisquel Ututo S
Wesnoth	Game	Addons	?	?	?
Xonotic	Game	Content downloaded during online games: Maps Music Other?	?	?	?

List of pages

This set of pages talks about external repositories.

• BrowserAddons
• DockerRegistries
• FlatpakRegistries

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

"issue" is not in the list (interest, location, project, school) of allowed values for the "Organized around" property.