Re: On Contributing To Emacs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I am imagining a command like `package-fetch'.  You could give it a
  > package name or a repository URL, and it would clone the contents into
  > ~/.emacs.d/elpa/devel.  Package.el would treat this as a special kind of
  > package (next to "installed", "dependency" and "built-in"), hopefully
  > being able to reuse the existing package-loading functionality.

I see the usefulness of this.

The first step of it -- operating on a package name, which would very likely
point to a repo site that we condemn, would put us into a moral contradiction.
However, there's no moral problem in the rest of it.

Would you like to implement `package-fetch' so that it always wants
a URL as argument?


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