@maksim That kind of logic makes no sense.

The mere existence or absence of packages in a package repository is a completely different thing to a restriction.


For example, lets say you want to edit a file with GNU ed.

For the purposes of the example, GNU ed isn't in the main repository for Trisquel, but lets say it happens to be in a 3rd party repository.

You would like to edit a file with the standard editor, but such software not isn't in the main repository, so you can't just run apt install ed - isn't that a restriction?

The answer is no, as there's nothing restricting you from enabling the 3rd party repository and installing GNU ed, or downloading GNU ed's source and compiling it.


You seem to be confusing a perceived lack of convenience for restrictions.