Re: Adding Emms to ELPA (take 2), and a technical question

[Richard Stallman]

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Lots of packages require building and that uses tools.
Emacs, for instance, needs various tools to build it,
including a C compiler.  Nothing wrong or unusual there.

What alarms me about pdf-tools is that it tries to install those tools
itself rather than leaving the user in control of that step.

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