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: [External] : [ELPA] Package cleanup Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:27:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20220329004337.nzeew6dlyqxm7wat@Ergus> 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="19709"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jimmy.aguilar@bsc.es, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Yates Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 31 06:30:58 2022 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 1nZmSY-0004wv-29 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2022 06:30:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54586 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nZmSW-0006xn-OM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:30:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:41960) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nZmP8-0001VS-T5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:27:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=50564 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nZmP8-0008Tn-7d; Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:27:26 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=QBJZvTfH2J4c1hXRRq5+9wQplBvXqUlIlFGl/96cMLA=; b=gitlFn6cQ8kG p4MFXXrsbCIuPRIsMWpZ3LTOnjugUuJVpN4BF0/MHIZUEkNQbdAgJ8Rj/rZ+A5hoKJhb+hqCB1tx3 eEnCbZCO7pP7DzVlKFn2Cyizk0LFgl8ExMti+3gVMdYYbYOpHriJAmILpgMg9f3HX3mXlufRgkR4A jLlBEPOkql/7M4kR76faneOTR9Byuh1f07yc07QmTOV/t9OtheIEatUTzb5WCuXLC3AcU2/JyTKgo 2iELmJr0AQtuZlO3aBMptgjbR/nNHPNCjiCQ7rLMSuAgJoKTnSoV7nLdwQn4BUlMhUVZr3ZfT6Yuy oRu/mpg/hQ29beah7cy6pA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nZmP7-0003Ad-MD; Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:27:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from John Yates on Tue, 29 Mar 2022 17:41:26 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:287625 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 the only virtue of being on ELPA is that I can install via > package.el then that seems like rather thin gruel. The main virtue of ELPA is that we make sure that the package follows our ethical criteria, so that it is acceptable for us to recommend it to people. A second virtue is that we can move the code into core Emacs. A secondary benefit is that the Emacs developers can fix problems in these packages, when we know of a specific problem. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)