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 00:35:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4be18b5f-dc07-2703-a2de-1ed08916ebdf@gmail.com> <1e340d941b6fd0b21a477f39fc935468@condition-alpha.com> <62ff80b8ff943b698ef8c46849b8bc50@condition-alpha.com> <83y2l0vas0.fsf@gnu.org> <83lfgyrn57.fsf@gnu.org> <83h7rlsxpw.fsf@gnu.org> 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="2409"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 26 06:36:03 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 1kM1wI-0000WJ-W0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 06:36:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48400 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kM1wH-0003Lx-W7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36062) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kM1vR-0002qq-Rt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54469) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kM1vR-00042U-IN; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kM1vO-0005is-UT; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 00:35:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83h7rlsxpw.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 25 Sep 2020 18:05:47 +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:256443 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. ]]] > Why does it matter whether we call it "category" or "tags". The > important part is what the user thinks about a package. And a single > package can satisfy several different needs. > So I think the idea of categorization that assumes a single category > per package is basically unworkable, because it's too restrictive, and > won't stand the test of time. I agree. In any case, the implementation of this doesn't need to make an assumption about how many categorizations a package can have. -- 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)