From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ELPAing all the GNU manuals Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:37:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87tx3st7cs.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411922287 3334 80.91.229.3 (28 Sep 2014 16:38:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:38:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nic Ferrier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 28 18:38:00 2014 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 1XYHTz-0004rN-V1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 18:38:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60329 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYHTz-0005eM-HW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:37:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39845) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYHTf-0005bQ-4f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:37:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYHTX-0003h9-Lh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:37:39 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:46157) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYHTX-0003fN-Gl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:37:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id s8SGbO6W008643; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5CE37AE80E; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:37:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87tx3st7cs.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> (Nic Ferrier's message of "Sun, 28 Sep 2014 10:36:03 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5078=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9378 : core <5078> : inlines <1340> : streams <1302290> : uri <1819207> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 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:174779 Archived-At: > All GNU manuals are free. Therefore they can be redistributed. > All GNU manuals have texinfo (well, I'm only interested in the ones that > do). > Texinfo manuals can be turned into packages. > Therefore we can put all GNU texinfo manuals into ELPA. Yes, we can do that. But just because we can doesn't mean we should. So what would be the benefits and the drawbacks? Clearly, you have some reason to do that. Could you explain it to us? Stefan "Preoccupied with keeping things up-to-date and in-sync"