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: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:44:57 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4be18b5f-dc07-2703-a2de-1ed08916ebdf@gmail.com> <1e340d941b6fd0b21a477f39fc935468@condition-alpha.com> <48e632cab427c838b1cc20a190f4959d@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="13564"; 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 Wed Sep 23 05:45:53 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 1kKvj5-0003Mn-6P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 05:45:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48150 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKvj4-0007eP-2w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:45:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39128) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKviF-0006sc-Co for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:44:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36710) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKviE-0003Wn-SO; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:44:58 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kKviD-0006eU-V9; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:44:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48e632cab427c838b1cc20a190f4959d@condition-alpha.com> (message from Alexander Adolf on Tue, 22 Sep 2020 22:57:48 +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:256347 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. ]]] > Fully agree. Favourites can only be granted by registered users of a > package repository web site. But there's no reason the reading of the > favourites count of a package couldn't be read-only and anonymous. I am not certain what "favourites count" means. If it refers to a feature whereby users can optionally tell the repository that they like the package, I have nothing against it. -- 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)