Re: Auto-installing packages?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > And, yet, the mantra is "ELPA is Emacs". It requires copyright
  > assignment (with all the intense pain that this entails), the files say
  > "part of Emacs" and so forth.

  > So, for the case of Emacs and ELPA installing over the network vs
  > pre-packaged is, I think, merely technical.

That is a valid point, in the case of GNU ELPA.

But would that facility be limited to GNU ELPA?
Or would it also be used with other package archives
that are not part of Emacs?

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Dr Richard Stallman
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