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Re: What is GNU ELPA?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: What is GNU ELPA? |
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Sun, 17 May 2020 15:59:00 +0300 |
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On May 17, 2020 5:48:53 AM GMT+03:00, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> > And efaq.texi:
>
> > There are other, non-GNU, Emacs Lisp package servers, including:
> > @uref{https://melpa.org, MELPA}; and
> > @uref{https://marmalade-repo.org, Marmalade}. To use additional
> > package servers, customize the @code{package-archives} variable. Be
> > aware that installing a package can run arbitrary code, so only add
> > sources that you trust.
>
> We should not be recommending those to the public. Would someone
> please delete that text?
This text is obsolete. The current text says:
"There are other, non-GNU, Emacs Lisp package servers, including:
MELPA and Marmalade. To use additional package servers, customize
the 'package-archives' variable. Be aware that installing a package can run
arbitrary code, so only add sources that you trust. Also, packages
hosted on non-GNU package servers may encourage or require you
to install and use non-free software; for example, MELPA is known
to host some packages that do this."
This explicitly warns about the MELPA problem, and so a reference to it there
is no more a recommendation to use it than a reference to Microsoft or
MS-Windowd is a promotion of those two.
It makes very little sense to me to remove any and all references to the
M-word, because doing so doesn't inform our users about these dangers, and thus
implicitly exposes them to those dangers.
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, (continued)
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/16
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/17
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/17
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/18
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Richard Stallman, 2020/05/18
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Yoni Rabkin, 2020/05/17
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/17
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Yoni Rabkin, 2020/05/17
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/05/18
- Re: What is GNU ELPA?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/05/18