Hacking:blacklist

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Blacklisting software that doesn't respect our freedom

This article explains the process of blacklisting an unfree package from being synced on our repos.

  1. Get an unfree package X
  2. Ssh into the repo server
  3. Edit repo/docs/blacklist.txt
  4. Add a line such as
    X:X-libre:this package is unfree because I said so
  5. Save and quit
  6. Run db-check-nonfree
  7. Freedom!