Re: Future role of ELPA

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Stefan Reichör <address@hidden> writes:

> 1. Not only emacs provides a package manager. Linux distributions also
> provide some packages. Not sure if this is a good idea. The same situation
> is e.g. for python. You can use pip to install packages. And there are
> python packages provided by distributions. Some people prefer OS packages,
> some prefer the native package manager. Not sure what to do about this
> situation.

I afraid that solving this is out of scope for us.

> 2. The packages should not be too fine grained. It is not very useful to
> split e.g. tramp in 20 sub-packages for example. I don't want to be
> overwhelmed by 100s or 1000s of packages. Perhaps we could have some kind of
> installation counter to find useful packages. Or even some kind of voting
> system.

Certainly, this is a matter of wisdom on the part of package submitters.
Egregious exceptions will need to be considered on a case-by-case basis.

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