Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Finally, a few thoughts on packages and curation. As of this writing,
  > the combined list of ELPA, MELPA, and builtin packages of my current
  > emacs lists 5,065 packages. Chances are, whatever topic you're looking
  > at, there's more than one package. Which one is the best for my
  > purposes?

MELPA will not be included in whatever we set up.
MELPA does not cooperate with us, so we don't support it.

  > Users can do "add to favourites" for a module. When one
  > browses the modules, the number of users who faved it is shown. Not
  > perfect, but a rule-of-thumb estimate for a module's popularity.

A package repository web site could have a feature like this, but we
want access to the packages to be read-only and anonymous in the usual
case.  That is a matter of respecting privacy.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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