From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Integrating package.el Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:39:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ocl167wx.fsf@hagelb.org> <8763795zsh.fsf@hagelb.org> <87r5pmwcf8.fsf@hagelb.org> <87ocjh2hyp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <873a0qxrd1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87635gqe8k.fsf@lifelogs.com> <201bac3a1003010832n4973a6d5s29d3db5de84c4c41@mail.gmail.com> <871vg4q80n.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267551593 20849 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2010 17:39:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:39:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 02 18:39:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmW4R-00037B-Gm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:39:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59065 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NmW4Q-0004MQ-Nm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:39:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NmW4I-0004Ki-PY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:39:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53723 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NmW4I-0004KJ-Dw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:39:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NmW4H-0000JE-IK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:39:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:42928) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NmW4H-0000J6-6N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:39:37 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmW4E-00015T-TS; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:39:34 -0500 In-reply-to: <871vg4q80n.fsf@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:14:16 -0600) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:121554 Archived-At: It looks like some people are trying to turn this into a package system with all the features of Debian. Please don't do that. The reason it is ok to install package.el is that it doesn't try to be a full-blown package system.