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: A proposal for removing obsolete packages Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 14:10:45 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87oacnwyg6.fsf@russet.org.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452971510 11617 80.91.229.3 (16 Jan 2016 19:11:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 19:11:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Andrew Hyatt Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 16 20:11:42 2016 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 1aKWGC-0008A6-BU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2016 20:11:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51455 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aKWGB-00030M-I8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2016 14:11:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60896) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aKWFx-0002zM-Ul for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2016 14:11:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aKWFx-0003JR-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2016 14:11:25 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39163) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aKWFK-00031c-Bf; Sat, 16 Jan 2016 14:10:46 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aKWFJ-0000sb-Ol; Sat, 16 Jan 2016 14:10:45 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Andrew Hyatt on Fri, 15 Jan 2016 23:13:51 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:198202 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. ]]] "Deprecated" is neither weaker nor stronger than "obsolete". Rather, they are different in quality. "Obsolete" means "This was useful before, but not now, since the context has changed." "Deprecated" means "We disapprove of this." -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.