> 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.