Hello, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 06:09:16PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> Hi ng0, >> >> > commit 57f9671d22bb4ee37962c31b9eed0ae50859398a >> > Author: ng0 <n...@n0.is> >> > Date: Wed Jan 17 22:42:55 2018 +0000 >> > >> > gnu: Add badass. >> [...] >> > + (package >> > + (name "badass") >> > + (version (git-version "0.0" revision commit)) >> [...] >> > + (synopsis "Hacking contribution graphs in git") >> > + (description >> > + "Badass generates false commits for a range of dates, essentially >> > +hacking the gamification of contribution graphs on platforms such as >> > +Github or Gitlab.") >> >> Why do you think this belongs in Guix? Do you intend to use it >> yourself, or do you have reason to believe that Guix users would want >> this? >> >> There's a lot of garbage out there. Guix doesn't need to include every >> script that someone uploaded to github. Frankly, I'm embarrassed to >> have a package like this in Guix. > > As the committer, I thought of this as an amusing toy, and we do have a > couple of those. > > But if people would rather we not distribute it, I won't object. I can understand Mark’s concerns, though I don’t have a strong opinion on this particular package (I find it both “weird” and “amusing”; it reflects on how people use those Git services.) The only formal acceptance criterion for packages in Guix is that it must be free software and FSDG-compatible. However, there might be software we’d rather not include in Guix proper for various reasons. One example we discussed recently is a package that allowed users to exploit specific security vulnerabilities, IIRC, and at the time we chose not to include it. I suspect there are other situations where we might be inclined to reject the package, but it’s hard to anticipate them; I suspect it’s going to be rare, though. Thoughts? Ludo’.
