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: In Support of ELPA Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:20:00 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87eftmejer.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87wp7ccnz6.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499995326 26399 195.159.176.226 (14 Jul 2017 01:22:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 01:22:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 14 03:22:03 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 1dVpIw-0006cp-La for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:22:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34879 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVpJ2-0005z2-7L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:22:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54707) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVpHw-0005wi-MV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:21:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVpHv-0008OF-Vu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:21:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48988) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVpGz-0007ck-3O; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:20:01 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dVpGy-0002Lk-Ht; Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:20:00 -0400 In-reply-to: <87wp7ccnz6.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) 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:216624 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. ]]] > If the outside host is someone who has write access to ELPA does it make > any difference? The difference is whether the Emacs maintainers have write access to those sources in their main repository. -- 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.