Re: What is GNU ELPA?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
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> Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 00:16:07 -0400
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>   > >    GNU packages that are available for use with Emacs, but are
>   > > distributed separately from Emacs itself, for reasons of space, etc
>   > > 
>   > > They are indeed "available to use" and "distributed separately".
> 
>   > But only "for reasons of space, etc.".
> 
> As I understand it, space is the only reason that we don't
> put all those packages in the core.

Perhaps not the only one, but all the others are of the same nature:
boring mechanical issues, not some fundamental incompatibilities, let
alone ideological problems.