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: Proposal for an Emacs User Survey Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:10:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4a1188f8-9864-54c0-ae6f-5f32102d9757@gmx.com> <20201011073553.GA6784@odonien.localdomain> <20201011120840.GC2923@protected.rcdrun.com> <20201011125031.GC6784@odonien.localdomain> <20201012050418.GZ2923@protected.rcdrun.com> <20201013052736.GE31408@protected.rcdrun.com> <20201016130235.06218dae@argon> 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="38941"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: bugs@gnu.support, thibaut.verron@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Marcel Ventosa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 18 06:12:41 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 1kU03l-000A21-2E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 06:12:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50108 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kU03j-0007oJ-Vk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:12:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53942) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kU01N-0005tX-63 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:10:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:37999) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kU01M-00077w-K1; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:10:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kU01C-0008NN-FQ; Sun, 18 Oct 2020 00:10:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20201016130235.06218dae@argon> (message from Marcel Ventosa on Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:02:35 +0700) 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:257988 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. ]]] > In fact, I would go the extra mile and say Emacs should expressly warn > users over the dangers of installing proprietary software from > unofficial repositories That could be a good idea. What would be good occasions on which to warn? Perhaps in list-packages when it sees a non-GNU repo, or when it sees MELPA? Perhaps in describe-package and packageinstall, when the package comes from a non-GNU repo, or specifically from MELPA? Any other ideas? (by the way, I always just assumed MELPA was > somehow official and related to ELPA, because its name is so similar to > ELPA). Yes, this is a source of confusion. Perhaps we should renamme GNU ELPA to a name that will avoid this confusion. Maybe GNU EP (GNU Emacs Packages)? EP is not meaningful to those who don't know what it means. But neither is ELPA. People understand it only if they have been told. So EP is no worse than ELPA. WDYT? -- 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)