From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:38:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4be18b5f-dc07-2703-a2de-1ed08916ebdf@gmail.com> <1e340d941b6fd0b21a477f39fc935468@condition-alpha.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6034"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alexander Adolf Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 22 05:39:28 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 1kKZ9L-0001SY-Dt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 05:39:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56986 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKZ9K-0004uJ-GD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:39:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54780) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKZ85-0003ey-4q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:38:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41813) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKZ84-00068A-Hy; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:38:08 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kKZ83-0006Wa-OS; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:38:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1e340d941b6fd0b21a477f39fc935468@condition-alpha.com> (message from Alexander Adolf on Mon, 21 Sep 2020 22:00:21 +0200) 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:256308 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. ]]] > Finally, a few thoughts on packages and curation. As of this writing, > the combined list of ELPA, MELPA, and builtin packages of my current > emacs lists 5,065 packages. Chances are, whatever topic you're looking > at, there's more than one package. Which one is the best for my > purposes? MELPA will not be included in whatever we set up. MELPA does not cooperate with us, so we don't support it. > Users can do "add to favourites" for a module. When one > browses the modules, the number of users who faved it is shown. Not > perfect, but a rule-of-thumb estimate for a module's popularity. A package repository web site could have a feature like this, but we want access to the packages to be read-only and anonymous in the usual case. That is a matter of respecting privacy. -- 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)