Re: ELPA policy

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Indeed, one possibility would be to simply close GNU ELPA for everything
  > but core or maybe-in-the-future-core packages. Is that what you're
  > proposing?

I think that is unnecessarily strict.  It presumes that when adding a
package to GNU ELPA we always know, already, whether we will ever want
to put it in the core.  I expect there are lots of cases  where
that decision will depend on circumstances.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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