From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding advisory notification for non-ELPA package.el downloads Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 05:27:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <371dc591-fc65-61b9-3eda-be09a5e653a8@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499678870 20324 195.159.176.226 (10 Jul 2017 09:27:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 09:27:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 10 11:27:45 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dUUyj-0004oz-0Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 11:27:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUUyo-0008N7-FY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 05:27:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40088) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUUye-0008Kl-MP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 05:27:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUUyd-0002V5-PY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 05:27:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38351) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dUUyZ-0002TG-KI; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 05:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dUUyZ-00040H-4q; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 05:27:31 -0400 In-reply-to: <371dc591-fc65-61b9-3eda-be09a5e653a8@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Sun, 9 Jul 2017 03:39:45 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:216396 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > There are big ones where that's not true, but they older, and they have > surely considered going the ELPA route already. I'm talking about packages that will get into this state in the future, which at present have just one developer, but will have more. Maybe that wasn't stated clearly at first. > The nagging approach can just as likely alienate users. A message at most once a week, that is on the screen for a short time, is hardly "nagging". -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.