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: Future role of ELPA Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:59:40 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87a8n20y7x.fsf@gmx.de> <87k2m60y08.fsf@mbork.pl> <871t8d26zp.fsf@gmx.de> <8760xpce7i.fsf@xsteve.at> <87vb5paxlp.fsf_-_@xsteve.at> <87h9h8bi9x.fsf@xsteve.at> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455724800 8488 80.91.229.3 (17 Feb 2016 16:00:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:00:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan =?utf-8?Q?Reich=C3=B6r?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 17 16:59:53 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 1aW4W7-0000Yc-OL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:59:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59054 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aW4W7-0000TY-1K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:59:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aW4W3-0000Su-Uk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:59:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aW4W0-0008Ho-1O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:59:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55125) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aW4Vw-0008Gw-UN; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:59:40 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aW4Vw-0004a5-7k; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:59:40 -0500 In-reply-to: <87h9h8bi9x.fsf@xsteve.at> (message from Stefan =?utf-8?Q?Rei?= =?utf-8?Q?ch=C3=B6r?= on Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:51:38 +0100) 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:200087 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. ]]] > 1. Not only emacs provides a package manager. Linux distributions also > provide some packages. You're talking about versions of the GNU system. Please don't call them "Linux distributions"! That gives the credit for our system to someone else, and not at all to us. It treats us very badly. See http://gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html and http://gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html, plus the history in http://gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html. -- 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.