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: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:33:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4be18b5f-dc07-2703-a2de-1ed08916ebdf@gmail.com> <1e340d941b6fd0b21a477f39fc935468@condition-alpha.com> <48e632cab427c838b1cc20a190f4959d@condition-alpha.com> <91bb3e347d5caed9487a2cd8e6d0db04@condition-alpha.com> <4deb019b-8034-4f18-9bd6-98424a0f09ee@default> 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="35720"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 26 06:34:24 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 1kM1ui-00098q-Gt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 06:34:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46404 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kM1uh-0002Pg-J5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:34:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35912) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kM1uE-0001yx-CQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:33:54 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54418) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kM1uD-0003tq-Kz; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:33:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kM1uC-0004SP-1R; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:33:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4deb019b-8034-4f18-9bd6-98424a0f09ee@default> (message from Drew Adams on Fri, 25 Sep 2020 08:22:47 -0700 (PDT)) 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:256442 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. ]]] > > > If it refers to a feature whereby users can optionally tell the > > > repository that they like the package, I have nothing against it. > > > > Exactly that. > Should we really conflate the set of Emacs > users with "registered repository users"? I don't follow you. You seem to be criticizing something but I don't know what. -- 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)