Re: Merging Finder into package mechanism

[Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>]

>> cus-dep.el cus-edit.el cus-face.el cus-load.el cus-start.el
>> cus-theme.el belong to the `custom' package.
>>
>> dired-aux and dired-x belong to `dired'.
>
> This certainly makes conceptual sense, but I have mixed feelings about
> this.  The reason is that built-in packages serve two main roles (to me
> anyway).
>
> First, users can make use of Finder and the Package Menu to browse
> through the Emacs distribution, and come across (or go looking for)
> less-familiar packages that they didn't know about.
>
> Second, third-party packages can easily specify a requirement on some
> version of CC mode, or Org mode, or other prominent packages that are
> distributed with Emacs but are relatively stand-alone.
>
> From both points of view, Dired (which is used when you do C-x C-f on
> directories) and custom (which defines the defcustom macro) are such
> integral parts of Emacs that listing them as separate packages doesn't
> seem to make sense.

I agree.  Maybe a rule of thumb for registering a package should be such
that when a package have versions outside of Emacs then threat it
as a separate package.