On Sunday, February 20, 2022 7:44:18 AM EST Taylan Kammer wrote: > On 20.02.2022 13:37, Maxime Devos wrote: > > The points about slippery slopes, research and niche use-cases seem > > reasonable to me. I do see follow-up questions though, should the > > description in Guix warn about potential issues? And should the > > description focus on research uses? ... > > > > More concretely, the p2pool description is: > > > > ‘Monero P2Pool is a peer-to-peer Monero mining pool. P2Pool > > combines the advantages of pool and solo mining; you still fully > > control your Monero node and what it mines, but *you get frequent > > payouts like on a regular pool.*’ > > > > This is quite a bit different from, say, aircrack-ng which seems > > to be mostly about assessing security, whereas the p2pool description > > is about gaining money (see ‘payouts’), and without mentioning that > > mining costs a lot of energy (and hence money, and possibly the money > > that is gained by mining is smaller than the amount lost due to energy > > costs!). > > > > My dislike for the description of p2pool might just be my views on > > money leaking through, though. > > > > Greetings, > > Maxime. > > I guess a different description would be better. It sounds almost > like a sales pitch with the mention of making money. :-) > > I'm not familiar with Monero/P2Pool so I don't know what a better > description might sound like though.
This description sound like it is promising that, if you run this software, you will "get frequent payouts". I don't think that's a claim Guix can or should make. I guess there's maybe some tension about to what extent package descriptions are speaking on behalf of the package or on behalf of Guix, but I don't think it usually causes too much confusion for the description of a package like `pypy3` to say what the program's developers think its merits are, without Guix as a project appearing to take a position on which is the best Python implementation. However, a package description claiming that you will get money if you use it seems like quite an extreme case. (More generally, I share both the concerns about the impacts of crypto mining and the concern that for Guix to refuse to package such software might have problematic implications.) -Philip
