Re: anything.el inclusion

[joakim@verona.se]

Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> writes:

> Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>
>>> What needs to happen for inclusion of anything.el by itself,
>>> in your opinion?
>>
>> What do you think about the following idea for package.el?
>>
>> To every package handled by package.el add a new parameter that tracks
>> the package's "popularity".  This could mean either the number of
>> downloads from the server that hosts these packages, or to add UI
>> where users would be able to vote for a package.
>>
>> Then we could sort all available packages by popularity in package.el UI,
>> so the top packages are objective candidates for inclusion in Emacs.
>
> This is the exact kind of of thinking that makes me want to avoid any
> centralized system such as package.el. Centralized systems like these
> makes people start thinking of all kinds of "benefits" the centralized
> system can bestow on users without the users ever asking for them (or
> knowing they exist).

I havent seen any such tendency with the distribution specific
repositories I have used (Fedora, Debian, Suse) 

-- 
Joakim Verona