]] "Dr. Bas Wijnen" > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:16:36AM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > python-digitalocean, ruby-azure*, waagent, twittering-mode, > > probably HBCI clients, python3-googleapi, > > python3-pyicloud, python-yowsup, youtube-dl, > > libgfbgraph-0.2-dev > > Thank you for this list. I removed servers that cannot run on a general > purpose system, because for obvious reasons they cannot be included in main > even if they were free software.
Then you shouldn't remove usbmuxd for instance. iOS devices are general purpose computing devices, they just run another OS, and there's nothing stopping somebody from implementing the same interfaces using free software and, say, the Linux USB APIs. I'm not sure what OS modern HP printers run, but I would also not be surprised if they run a pretty straightforward Linux. Somebody could implement the APIs and produce, say, PDFs, or print using a hand-built printer. For the first case, you could easily run that on a general purpose system. You say that the requirement for an implementation to be useful is orthogonal to whether it's suitable for main. Does that also hold with s/useful/functional/? -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
