AUCTeX inclusion [Re: elpa.gnu.org repository sync with Emacs]

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:00:10 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> 
> wrote: 
>
> LMI> So...  ELPA would be for packages that we want to have readily available
> LMI> in Emacs, but that we can't ever easily cut any cruft out of as Emacs
> LMI> progresses?  But since the FSF-copyright assignment regime would still
> LMI> apply to ELPA, we'd wouldn't be able to accept big packages like auctex
> LMI> anyway?
>
> You know, AUCTeX is in there...  http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/
>
> Chong Yidong and the AUCTeX maintainers spent a lot of time getting the
> copyrights done and putting the tarball together.

Is the any reason not to include AUCTeX in emacs proper instead of elpa?
It's a very useful package to have working by default without having
to deal with setting up packages.