From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What is GNU ELPA? Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 10:08:50 +0300 Message-ID: <83v9kwtkzh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <35DBF02E-44D7-41E5-A217-7D6EC84ED221@icloud.com> <07d7ff5d-dd57-00e7-933f-3188d57d6185@yandex.ru> <96f718b4-8ba9-7b9a-f940-7070e4a9a424@yandex.ru> <83sgg13cek.fsf@gnu.org> <096d8f50-3568-8f01-610f-65199c583358@yandex.ru> <83lflt1flx.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="84842"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: joostkremers@fastmail.fm, Emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, pcr910303@icloud.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 16 09:09:43 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jZqx3-000LwC-48 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 16 May 2020 09:09:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40122 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZqx2-0008Qt-57 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 16 May 2020 03:09:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43322) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZqwY-0007r3-UV for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 May 2020 03:09:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:60253) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZqwY-00010d-0T; Sat, 16 May 2020 03:09:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2693 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jZqwP-0005uB-Dd; Sat, 16 May 2020 03:09:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Sat, 16 May 2020 00:16:07 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:250457 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Cc: dgutov@yandex.ru, joostkremers@fastmail.fm, ams@gnu.org, > Emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, > pcr910303@icloud.com, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk > Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 00:16:07 -0400 > > > > GNU packages that are available for use with Emacs, but are > > > distributed separately from Emacs itself, for reasons of space, etc > > > > > > They are indeed "available to use" and "distributed separately". > > > But only "for reasons of space, etc.". > > As I understand it, space is the only reason that we don't > put all those packages in the core. Perhaps not the only one, but all the others are of the same nature: boring mechanical issues, not some fundamental incompatibilities, let alone ideological problems.