From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: joakim@verona.se Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: anything.el inclusion Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:39:06 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87y6hib6vi.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <8739zp80up.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87vdck20mp.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <87ocic1z3x.fsf@tux.homenetwork> <871vf8o684.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <8739zoxujx.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <87y6hfj9hv.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877hoygl3n.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87ljdc7u95.fsf@rabkins.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1269797971 3817 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2010 17:39:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:39:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yoni Rabkin Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 28 19:39:27 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvwSM-0005BX-5n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:39:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44924 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvwSL-0006f5-LA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:39:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NvwSF-0006ah-W5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:39:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50780 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NvwSE-0006YE-FW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:39:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvwSC-0001ve-3P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:39:17 -0400 Original-Received: from iwfs.imcode.com ([82.115.149.64]:53324 helo=gate.verona.se) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NvwSB-0001v7-Q0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:39:16 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:1005@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.verona.se (8.13.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id o2SHd6Ki030497; Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:39:06 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87ljdc7u95.fsf@rabkins.net> (Yoni Rabkin's message of "Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:58:14 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122800 Archived-At: Yoni Rabkin writes: > Juri Linkov 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