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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:256202 Archived-At: > Here is : > - a 1st general flow proposal with a point to discuss, > - with 1 example of how each step could be structured. It's been said before: Please do NOT refer to such a prepared set of settings and packages as an Emacs "distribution". These are not distributions. Call them nearly anything but that, please. They're giant sacks of possible features and choices of settings. I don't care whether you call them styles, brands, super-packages, modes, themes, or foobars. But they're not Emacs distributions.