Re: Why not include all ELPA packages in an Emacs release?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 23:15:49 +0000
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
>  Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> 
> Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net> writes:
> 
> > Would there be a problem in including a snapshot of ELPA packages in an
> > Emacs release?
> 
> This has been discussed several times in the past.  There are no
> principal problems, and AFAIU the consensus is that we would like to
> do it, though there are some practical issues to work out.

Actually, this particular suggestion was never on the table.  At least
I cannot remember it being on the table.

What we discussed was the desire to move packages out of core in a way
that a release tarball would include those package.  That is what we
have a consensus about (but not a complete and satisfactory solution
yet).

Back to the suggestion in this thread: I cannot really see why would
we want to add almost 500 packages to Emacs.  Especially since AFAIR
some of them solve the same or very similar problems in different,
sometimes even contradictory, ways.

If there are packages on ELPA which we consider to be a must for users
(I don't think there are, but maybe I'm forgetting something), lets
add them to core instead.

> So help is both welcome and needed here, I think.

That's definitely true.