Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > Or why not put org-store-link under C-x r ?
> >
> > That would be possible, but there are not many free letters there, and 
> > if org-mode did this it would take the risk to have the chosen key 
> > reclaimed by Emacs for another purpose at any time.
>
> But org-mode is part of Emacs...

Org-mode is an exception indeed, it is both part of Emacs and an external 
package on Elpa.  As you may have seen, the proposal is not only for 
org-mode, it is for third-party libraries in general.