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: enable MELPA & Marmalade by defaul [was: mykie.el] Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 04:27:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87bnzshlo5.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <20140103.200846.1574807089640559527.cokesboy@gmail.com> <87a9f8g22x.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> <76f5b9cd-3452-4189-b3a0-30dc55a3ee55@default> <87wqic65kj.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87mwj7go59.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389174440 17546 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2014 09:47:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 09:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 08 10:47:28 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W0pjU-0006fw-7D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 10:47:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45763 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0pRK-0003BA-Ep for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 04:28:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42572) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0pQP-0002NK-DX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 04:27:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0pQN-0003iO-Qw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 04:27:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60767) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0pQN-0003iK-OK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 04:27:43 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W0pQM-000401-He; Wed, 08 Jan 2014 04:27:42 -0500 In-reply-to: <87mwj7go59.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167718 Archived-At: [[[ 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. ]]] > Mentioning a repository constitutes recommending it. [...] > This example is cogent, because the Netflix app Newsflash! RMS recommends Netflix![1] ;-) We were talking about mentioning a repository as an option for people to use. I didn't make sure to repeat that in full, I said just "mentioning", but I think you could have understood the intended meaning from the context. Allowing the user to specify a generic base URL in the package access software is a very weak recommendation, since it "recommends" everything on the web. A general facility like that doesn't recommend anything in particular. Listing particular programs or collections leads people towards them; that's what we need to be selective about. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.