Fair enough. 

On Tue, Aug 29, 2023, at 3:04 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:33:59 +0300
> > From: "Bozhidar Batsov" <bozhidar@batsov.dev>
> > Cc: "Philip Kaludercic" <philipk@posteo.net>,
> >  "Dmitry Gutov" <dmitry@gutov.dev>, "Po Lu" <luangruo@yahoo.com>,
> >  "Danny Freeman" <danny@dfreeman.email>,
> >  "Stefan Kangas" <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
> >  "Emacs Devel" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
> >  "Manuel Uberti" <manuel.uberti@inventati.org>
> > 
> > And, I'll say it once more - in case this was missed in the conversations. Personal misgivings about
> > the mechanics of Emacs's development aside, I think it's not prudent to keep growing its core, which
> > is already huge. Obviously it's up to the Emacs developers to decide what to do, but I'd be moving
> > more things into packages and bundling less things with Emacs. You might have seen this trend in
> > some programming languages - e.g. Ruby has slimmed down its core a lot and this helped channel
> > the efforts of the core team. 
> 
> Please don't go that way, and please don't bring that into this
> (already troubles enough) thread.  As you say, it is the prerogative
> of the Emacs project to decide how lean-and-mean or how bloated it
> wants to be.  You are entitled to your differing opinions, but as you
> ask us to leave the package management to you, please be fair and
> leave the management of the Emacs project to us.  It is unlikely that
> we will change our minds just to accommodate your philosophy.
> 
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