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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.dev>, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Packages quality (was: [nongnu] main 74116339a8 2/3: * elpa-packages (anzu): New package)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2022 01:55:16 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkO+hagGtFaX48fO-coGWQr9XAN-C2Ax_NMuC06zUycTA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3c5d2b69-7292-4e15-82e5-9f146979257d@www.fastmail.com>

"Bozhidar Batsov" <bozhidar@batsov.dev> writes:

> I'm also curious what "redundant package" even means in this
> context. There are always many ways to achieve something and usually
> there's no clear way to decide if some approach is much better than
> the alternatives. Given how early we are with NonGNU ELPA I think that
> concerns about "obsolete" and "redundant" packages are quite overdone.

I don't think it's time to start pruning NGE, indeed, but we could avoid
adding packages that are on MELPA that are already obviously
obsolete/superseded.

For example, I use the software "anki" quite a lot, and there are four
different packages for it.  I have tried all of them, and frankly
speaking only one of those packages is relevant.  Therefore, I would
advise against adding the others; as Philip points out, this is more
likely to waste users time than be very helpful.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-07  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20220106082302.0A19CC0DA1E@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-01-06 10:02   ` [nongnu] main 74116339a8 2/3: * elpa-packages (anzu): New package Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-06 12:00     ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-06 13:35       ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-06 14:30         ` Packages quality (was: [nongnu] main 74116339a8 2/3: * elpa-packages (anzu): New package) Stefan Monnier
2022-01-06 15:03           ` Bozhidar Batsov
2022-01-06 17:07             ` Packages quality Stefan Monnier
2022-01-06 19:50               ` Tim Cross
2022-01-07  7:54               ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-07 11:45                 ` John Yates
2022-01-07 12:16                   ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-07 15:52                     ` John Yates
2022-01-07  7:55             ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2022-01-07 10:22               ` Packages quality (was: [nongnu] main 74116339a8 2/3: * elpa-packages (anzu): New package) Bozhidar Batsov
2022-01-07 10:54                 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-06 17:28           ` Packages quality Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-06 19:55         ` [nongnu] main 74116339a8 2/3: * elpa-packages (anzu): New package Juri Linkov
2022-01-07  7:55         ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-16 17:49           ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-16 22:19             ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-19  8:57               ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-19 15:19                 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-16 22:32             ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-16 23:16               ` Ergus
2022-01-19  9:05                 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-16 23:47               ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-19  9:03               ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-17  7:37             ` Jean Louis
2022-01-19  9:10               ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-01-07 10:02         ` Stefan Kangas
2022-01-10  1:18           ` Stefan Monnier
2022-01-07  9:38     ` Augusto Stoffel

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