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: [RFC] Add posframe.el to elpa Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:35:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: <772cb4bb.5d53.161c1e20d26.Coremail.tumashu@163.com> <5f27f757.4d4.161c5310072.Coremail.tumashu@163.com> <87371oy6ov.fsf@163.com> <2adc0d2f.79c0.161d11208c5.Coremail.tumashu@163.com> <758b0884.7d7.161d498b671.Coremail.tumashu@163.com> <368fc322.2db8.161da373f47.Coremail.tumashu@163.com> <51ce7e7f-bca2-e410-cffd-f4842d791e44@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 1519839218 28601 195.159.176.226 (28 Feb 2018 17:33:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 17:33:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 28 18:33:34 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 1er5bh-0006iI-5E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2018 18:33:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45787 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1er5dh-00015k-S1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:35:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59681) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1er5db-00015D-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:35:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1er5dZ-0002P3-MO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:35:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33688) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1er5dU-0002Kx-JZ; Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:35:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1er5dU-0008NK-6O; Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:35:24 -0500 In-reply-to: <51ce7e7f-bca2-e410-cffd-f4842d791e44@gmail.com> (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel on Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:56:46 -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:223178 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. ]]] > Do we have away to add an external package to elpa? I'm thinking > MELPA style, where you just point ELPA to the appropriate > repository and it pulls from there. I see that this would be convenient, but it would be asking for trouble. It would mean there is code we distribute as effectively part of Emacs which we can't edit. That is unwise. Thus, my decision is no. -- 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.