From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Allowing rolling release packages on ELPA Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:18:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87o7u4p2t4.fsf@posteo.net> <874jvvm9hn.fsf@protesilaos.com> <7c2bdbbd-bd23-cda9-50d4-23c4702215df@secure.kjonigsen.net> <87czah43fk.fsf@posteo.net> <5a312950-ceb1-4f44-a56d-98634544bb1d@app.fastmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9135"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: philipk@posteo.net, bozhidar@batsov.dev, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jostein@kjonigsen.net To: jostein@kjonigsen.net Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 26 21:22:13 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1onlye-00029u-PG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 21:22:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onlup-0007em-2G; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:18:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onlul-0007eJ-SK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:18:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onlul-00020O-DZ; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:18:11 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=E6NWsSHR/jbux3ELu7pYUIqIyicGrokxSlhRT6KecC8=; b=oHgNJk0QGl6w 6XW4e02ut72kIPPhCBzZRvQTxsWnMXlUahfJnYHQYSNIEzK9hCc2eNtU7+bpKRiDc8CMusoBgTbvz mGn2tSJNHJ+hBW/vFPOS+rdwX70742Z9tDoeJ9a/LMZ2a7S74h07+T1slDENfcmvxIdcV95+MlhQS vKKf8E3znsOImIxbjhn8ly8LCgQtsQbNQDr6s7vACSStcSCCu9GjWXtb4wga0HwZnqfPsJaJUQf+n asE+PKJDKfJSm3w5YVBXxbxIFeE/LcjA2WONsSYi+XUaTRjZZzbg3zymHxXLv0lke0lI6DrMhQDV2 KMOYoj+82XwfPKA4rFdL2g==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1onlul-0005bT-55; Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:18:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <5a312950-ceb1-4f44-a56d-98634544bb1d@app.fastmail.com> (message from Jostein =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kj=C3=B8nigsen?= on Mon, 24 Oct 2022 18:39:36 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:298580 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. ]]] > In fact that’s how I (as a user) consume Emacs: It is impossible to "consume" GNU Emacs. We use it, but using it does not consume it. Even if you kill an Emacs process, the program Emacs remains, ready to run again. See https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Consume. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)