From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: What is GNU ELPA? Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 23:19:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <35DBF02E-44D7-41E5-A217-7D6EC84ED221@icloud.com> <07d7ff5d-dd57-00e7-933f-3188d57d6185@yandex.ru> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="78320"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: joostkremers@fastmail.fm, ams@gnu.org, Emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, pcr910303@icloud.com, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 15 05:20:36 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jZQtm-000KF2-61 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 15 May 2020 05:20:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42836 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZQtl-0001as-6b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 14 May 2020 23:20:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46620) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZQsj-0008V9-QK for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 May 2020 23:19:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:49400) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZQsj-0008RZ-9C; Thu, 14 May 2020 23:19:29 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jZQsg-0008M6-Of; Thu, 14 May 2020 23:19:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <07d7ff5d-dd57-00e7-933f-3188d57d6185@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Thu, 14 May 2020 21:32:02 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:250318 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. ]]] > > Most people (somewhat wrongly) think of GNU ELPA as a *distribution* > > site for third party packages, like MELPA. > > > > > > I just wanted to confirm that it's indeed the case for a lot of users. What do we say now to explain what GNU ELPA is? And where do we say it? Will users see that explanation in the normal workflow of using packages from GNU ELPA? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)