Ah sorry. I got confused cause somebody said they were contacting the author at the same time I was added. 

No, I don't remember the specific reasons why I change that. I may have had something to do with avoiding prompts or reducing the amount of message output produced by package.el (I remember working on that) but that's just guessing. 

Artur

On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, 12:37 am Eli Zaretskii, <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 20:22:12 -0300
> Cc: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>, 38264@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> I think I may have been mistakenly included here. :-)
>  I'm not the author of straight.el and I don't see the author in this thread.

You made the change in package.el that uses inhibit-message's value to
bind noninteractive, and also made other similar changes in
package.el.  That's why I CC'ed you.

But if you don't remember making that change, or its reasons, that's
fine' I can take it from here.

Thanks.