Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA

[Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>]

JD Smith <jdtsmith@gmail.com> writes:

> I know some inexperienced users have this concern, but I don't think
> anyone here believes that.  I also do not worry for one second about
> the 1,007,028 bytes **/idlw*.{el,texi,info} occupy, since downloading
> them takes <<1 second.  No, the costs I see are not related to
> unwanted bytes, neither bytes on disk nor bytes loaded into the
> running emacs process.  But reasonable people can disagree about the
> scope of these costs.  Disabling the auto-mode-alist and moving the
> manual from the top level would go a long way towards mitigating them,
> IMO.

Any costs that cannot be quantified in consumed disk space or bytes
loaded into the Emacs process are notional or perhaps even imaginary,
and plenty debatable.  No consensus has ever formed on the subject, and
any such attempt will be a wild goose chase, if you will.