Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com>,  rms@gnu.org,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:49:39 -0400
> 
> >> >From what I understood of your comments, you seem to claim that local
> >> users choosing different names in step #2 would cause a problem?
> > No.  The problem I have in mind is that the user might decide to give
> > a package some keyword when first installed, but then the user might
> > wish to have the same package in another setup-KEYWORD.el file as
> > well, because it is useful as part of another group of packages.
> 
> For that there would be tags.

That's not the problem, and tags are not the solution.

The problem is with the concept of having groups of packages that load
together, and whose customizations are on a single .el file.  Once a
package can belong to more than one such group (and there will be such
packages), this concept breaks.

Anyway, I've already said this several times, and since it doesn't
seem to help drive the point home, I will assume that I'm missing
something important here, or am otherwise confused, and will shut up
in this thread from now on.