From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: document package.el Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:43:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4C5CBA32.9000109@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282945394 19527 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2010 21:43:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:43:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uday S Reddy Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 27 23:43:10 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Op6ha-00083E-LS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:43:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40738 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Op6ha-0002Kg-3g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:43:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36898 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Op6hV-0002K7-BV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Op6hU-0004Tt-GH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:37382) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Op6hU-0004Tp-9J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:43:04 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Op6hS-00056A-OZ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:43:02 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Uday S Reddy on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:43:17 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129318 Archived-At: I personally think that upgrading packages should be a conscious, deliberate action. You never know what changes the developers have put in the upgrade and what those change would entail in terms of how you will use the package. I agree. Not only that, but we want users to be conscious of and control what software they run. Leading them to let things be updated automatically is the opposite of that.