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: Auto-installing packages? Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:46:15 -0400 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 1536972285 21537 195.159.176.226 (15 Sep 2018 00:44:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 00:44:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "T.V Raman" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 15 02:44:41 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 1g0yhU-0005Vd-K2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 02:44:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53916 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0yjb-0004Y1-8Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:46:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50933) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0yjQ-0004Xi-5i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:46:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0yjK-0004Cc-GZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:46:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60830) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g0yj1-0003t4-SL; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:46:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1g0yj1-0005h5-NF; Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:46:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: (raman@google.com) 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:229798 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. ]]] The difference between Emacs and packages available over the net is not merely technical. It affects legal issues, and it affects communication of our message, So we should not try to minimize its visibility. Just the contrary, we need to make it the difference visible, something that users will think about. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)