Hello Ryan,

> I think it would be appropriate if each "next" package had a code comment, or perhaps an addendum to its package description, describing how it relates to the main packaged version.

I think the whole "next" category is problematic. Why not just have a version number of that package that's different from the "main" one? So instead of emacs-next have emacs-30.0.9 or whatever. At least here the choice of arbitrariness is visible. A "next" makes no sense.

> In case you don't know about "--with-latest", that's the supported way to install the latest master branch of a package. "-next" packages are not meant to closely track master.

Thank you for this, how can this be added when declaring a package in system or home configuration?

Regards,

Divya Ranjan, Mathematics, Philosophy and Libre Software