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: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions? Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 20:50:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: <76b1fb81-54c0-c213-a542-dc7b9838c473@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517190618 24267 195.159.176.226 (29 Jan 2018 01:50:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 01:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 29 02:50:14 2018 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 1efya4-0004y0-GM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2018 02:49:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55032 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efyc5-0005aI-3s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 20:52:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49930) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efyb2-0005Y8-2f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 20:50:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efyb1-0000Ir-5O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 20:50:56 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50841) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1efyay-0000Gf-R1; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 20:50:52 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1efyay-0001HI-EK; Sun, 28 Jan 2018 20:50:52 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sun, 28 Jan 2018 08:24:40 -0500) 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:222285 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. ]]] > Why not? All the packages that come bundled with Emacs are always > unconditionally activated and we don't offer any way to prevent this > activation (indeed, it's activated during the dump so we basically > can't prevent it). They are always "activated", but the downloadable packages are not. Since the status of activation can change, let's handle this in the way users expect, for things that can be enabled and disabled. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.