Re: Adding use-package to core

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2022 17:11:57 +0100 (CET)
> From: xenodasein@tutanota.de
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> From:         Eli Zaretskii
> Subject:      Re: Adding use-package to core
> Date:         Sun, 13 Nov 2022 09:31:11 +0200
> > I don't share Stefan's fears.  If the only issue with moving
> > use-package to core is that someone must step forward to take the
> > responsibility for maintaining it, I think we can move it into core
> > without fear.  I see no reason for making a dedicated maintainer for
> > use-package a prerequisite for importing it, given what John says
> > about its stability.  It's a non-issue.
> 
> Why don't you?  This package has been very popular for a long time and
> at least I haven't seen anyone complain about it not being in core.
> Whatever gets included seem to freeze in time and becomes very hard to
> make non-breaking changes, and their writers probably get frustrated
> from that more easily and stop developing it.  There's ever more lines of
> code and more packages, I don't think this direction is sustainable and
> I hope you will reconsider this approach of adding everything to core
> at some point.

If you have read this discussion, you've seen that the package's
author thinks it's best to move use-package into core, and describes
the package as stable without any need for significant development.
So I think your comments are based on some misunderstanding.