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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:284382 Archived-At: "Bozhidar Batsov" 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to start pruning NGE, indeed, but we could avoid adding packages that are on MELPA that are already obviously obsolete/superseded.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.