Re: What is GNU ELPA?

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

     > >    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.

Wouldn't it mean that if is a mainly a space issue, then all the
things in ELPA should also be held to the same standards as the rest
of GNU Emacs?