From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: elpa.gnu.org packages requiring external packages Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:08:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517321221 11572 195.159.176.226 (30 Jan 2018 14:07:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:07:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 30 15:06:57 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1egWYn-0002Se-Q2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:06:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39380 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1egWao-0006DV-LO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:08:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36978) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1egWah-0006Cs-D6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:08:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1egWad-0003Hm-7E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:08:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60391) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1egWad-0003Hi-37 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:08:47 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1egWac-0004CT-F0; Tue, 30 Jan 2018 09:08:46 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Tue, 30 Jan 2018 02:22:39 -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: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:222309 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. ]]] > Is it appropriate for elpa.gnu.org to distribute packages that can't be > installed without packages from other repos? Thanks for reporting this. > ebdb-i18n-chn # needs "pyim" > helm-ebdb # needs "helm" Those should be removed. > org-edna # needs "org 9.0.5" Perhaps that's a bug in the package handling code rather than a problem with that package itself. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.