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: Re: What is GNU ELPA? Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 00:16:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <35DBF02E-44D7-41E5-A217-7D6EC84ED221@icloud.com> <07d7ff5d-dd57-00e7-933f-3188d57d6185@yandex.ru> <96f718b4-8ba9-7b9a-f940-7070e4a9a424@yandex.ru> <83sgg13cek.fsf@gnu.org> <096d8f50-3568-8f01-610f-65199c583358@yandex.ru> <83lflt1flx.fsf@gnu.org> 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="61107"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: joostkremers@fastmail.fm, Emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, pcr910303@icloud.com, dgutov@yandex.ru, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 16 06:17:22 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 1jZoGI-000FmK-C2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 16 May 2020 06:17:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50454 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZoGH-0005tO-Bn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 16 May 2020 00:17:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54180) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZoF8-0004i6-KI for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 May 2020 00:16:11 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57563) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZoF7-0003cl-0q; Sat, 16 May 2020 00:16:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jZoF5-0004Bk-1Y; Sat, 16 May 2020 00:16:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83lflt1flx.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 15 May 2020 16:40:10 +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:250444 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. ]]] > > GNU packages that are available for use with Emacs, but are > > distributed separately from Emacs itself, for reasons of space, etc > > > > They are indeed "available to use" and "distributed separately". > But only "for reasons of space, etc.". As I understand it, space is the only reason that we don't put all those packages in the core. -- 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)