From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bloat in the Emacs Windows package Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 10:33:13 +0300 Message-ID: <83imvacuva.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87v9zcczlf.fsf@russet.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="143451"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn?= Lindqvist Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 19 09:34:41 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hHO2j-000bD2-Pi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 09:34:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52706 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hHO2i-0000u2-QE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 03:34:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50776) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hHO1d-0000so-Tv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 03:33:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46369) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hHO1d-0004rl-9Z; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 03:33:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2500 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hHO1c-0008Rl-Cb; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 03:33:32 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from =?utf-8?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn?= Lindqvist on Fri, 19 Apr 2019 02:02:31 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:235645 Archived-At: > From: Björn Lindqvist > Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 02:02:31 +0200 > Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Since then, both bandwidth and disk space has gotten cheaper. But I > bet there are still lots of situations where Emacs' smallness is > important. Especially in poorer parts of the world. Of course. But those situations need special-purpose packages, and each one of those will need a volunteer dedicated to produce and support it. The popular demand clearly shifted to having the comprehensive packages with everything included. Feel free to volunteer to produce a bare-minimum Emacs package for such situation.