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| From: | Dmitry Gutov |
| Subject: | Re: What is GNU ELPA? |
| Date: | Sat, 16 May 2020 03:07:06 +0300 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.7.0 |
On 15.05.2020 18:08, Howard Melman wrote:
A very
popular server is @uref{https://melpa.org, MELPA} but note
that it contains some software that recommends non-free
software.
This sounds very circumspect. As a user, *I* don't have to fear something recommending me something. Or else that would imply some ostrich-like behavior. Those who avoid proprietary software, take care to do it. Those who don't, don't care.
If we must say something, let's try factual: some packages in there depend on non-free software being installed. Even so, that sounds unnecessarily negative to me, given that (by some very rough estimate) the fraction of such packages there is <5%.
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