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From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA,
	"T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
Subject: Re: Auto-installing packages?
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 12:50:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736u8s5q8.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1g0yj1-0005h5-NF@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:46:15 -0400")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> The difference between Emacs and packages available over the net
> is not merely technical.  It affects legal issues, and it affects
> communication of our message,
>
> So we should not try to minimize its visibility.  Just the contrary,
> we need to make it the difference visible, something that users will
> think about.


And, yet, the mantra is "ELPA is Emacs". It requires copyright
assignment (with all the intense pain that this entails), the files say
"part of Emacs" and so forth.

So, for the case of Emacs and ELPA installing over the network vs
pre-packaged is, I think, merely technical.

Phil



  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-17 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-14  1:51 Auto-installing packages? Stefan Monnier
2018-09-14  7:09 ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-14  8:39 ` T.V Raman
2018-09-15  0:46   ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-17 11:50     ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2018-09-17 22:51       ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-18 16:16         ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-19  3:40           ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-20 16:58             ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-24  1:46               ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-14 14:11 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-14 18:17   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-17 11:48     ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-17 13:40       ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-18 16:12         ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-18 21:05           ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-14 15:52 ` Perry E. Metzger
2018-09-15  0:50   ` Richard Stallman

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