• Deckweiss@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Man, I forgot what it was called, but once I was on the website of some batshit paranoid linux / bsd distro, which had a list of argument for why they removed certain packages.

    It definitely seemed like the maintainers were reading the source, but some of the arguments were also really out there.

    Hope somebody can remind me of what it was called.


    Edit:

    found it

    https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:incompatible_packages

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      That is, ummm, interesting. Can their installed system do anything, though? There are so many restrictions, it seems like it would be a difficult installation to daily drive.

      And some of the justifications are really confusing. I realize some are probably typographical errors, but I can’t figure out what a few of them are saying at all. It reminds me of the people that invent their own lexicon and just expect everyone to understand what they are saying.

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        Package has different security-issues and is not oriented on the way of technical emancipation as Hyperbola is trying to adapt lightweight implementations.

        It sounds like something chatGPT would hallucinate.

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        Well, it is basically LibreJS logic applied to an entire distro, like your typical FSF-approved distro. It’s a distro by free software extremists for free software extremists and no one else. It’s is completely impractical for actual use. But really it’s worse than the average FSF-approved distro. It takes things several steps further by removing many things that are 100% free software, but just subjectively disliked by the maintainers, including even the Linux-libre kernel, as the project is in the process of moving to an OpenBSD base. The OpenBSD people naturally want nothing to do with them, so I’m looking forward to seeing that play out.