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Richard Stallman wrote:
> > They should be in lisp/mail/, not in lisp/gnus/. In other words, they
> > should be in common Emacs infrastructure, documented in
> > lispref/*.texi, and all the Emacs mail packages should use them.
>
> If they are a general facility, they should definitely be moved;
> the main repository for them should be the Emacs repository.
>
> Currently, some
> fancier capabilities of MH-E are only availble if the user has also
> installed a separate recent version of gnus since the Emacs version is
> too old.
>
> If you distribute MH-E outside of Emacs, you can distribute whatever
> you like with it.
We distribure a few contrib files that are not part of MH-E proper, but
we let users fetch gnus for themselves. (On Debian systems, the mh-e
package simply recommends the gnus package.)
Peter