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Re: Contradictiory directions


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: Contradictiory directions
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 08:41:41 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> I think the idea is that for us to _distribute_ a version of Emacs that
> allows to dynamically load proprietary modules is wrong and sets a bad
> example for the GNU project.

It is impossible to disallow such a thing, so I'm not sure what your
point is.

>> The industry standard is allowlist/blocklist.
>
> If so, it is certainly a standard I don't know about.  In nearly three
> decades, I've heard many variants of "list", but never "allowlist" or
> "blocklist".  Can we agree to use the terminology that everyone knows
> about in Emacs, to keep the situation simple?

Seems simple enough to me.

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