Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[Richard Stallman]

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  >   I don't think anyone would mind if a
  > package shipped with Emacs automatically downloaded and installed a
  > free language server. (and I haven't actually seen any non-free language
  > servers.)

That approach to problem can have disadvantages.
In general, for the kind of packages that we would
like to include in Emacs, we should push for that kind of solution.

We should not treat "autoloaded from elsewhere" as equivalent to
"included".  Where something is distributed DOES make a difference.



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Dr Richard Stallman
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