[Nix-dev] Unfree packages in Nixpkgs

[Kirill Elagin]

I agree, that would be very nice to have a list of “unblocked” unfree
packages.

We can go even better and “unblock” packages not by name, but by license,
i. e. if
I've already accepted terms of some particular non-free license it doesn't
make any
difference for me to have another package with this same license installed.
That's how things in Gentoo work, I have a file with an explicit list of
non-free licenses
that I've accepted.


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Кирилл Елагин


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:

> While I appreciate that things are simple I'm sure we can do even
> better:
>
> nixpkgs.config.allowUnfreePackages = ["skype" "ati"];
> or simply "all" or true to allow all
>
> When setting to true you still may get "new unfree" software unnoticed.
>
> Would you mind thinking about whether having such an explicit white list
> would be more valuable than just using "true/false" ?
>
> Marc Weber
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