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 22:48:55 -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> 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="40396"; 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, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Dmitry Gutov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 17 04:49:41 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 1ja9Mz-000AQH-4S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 17 May 2020 04:49:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42526 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ja9My-000279-63 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 16 May 2020 22:49:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37578) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ja9MH-0001GP-S9 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 May 2020 22:48:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51741) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ja9MH-0001rm-Ia; Sat, 16 May 2020 22:48:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ja9MF-0006Pk-Tk; Sat, 16 May 2020 22:48:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <96f718b4-8ba9-7b9a-f940-7070e4a9a424@yandex.ru> (message from Dmitry Gutov on Fri, 15 May 2020 06:46:02 +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:250547 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. ]]] > > Will users see that explanation > > in the normal workflow of using packages from GNU ELPA? > I'm not sure they need to. We want them to know this, and it seems we are not reaching most of them with this information. What can we do to reach them better? The idea that occurs to me is to make M-x load-package tell them, occasionally. Perhaps the first time each user runs it. Perhaps once a year after that. Any other suggestions? -- 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)