Re: On Contributing To Emacs

[Philip Kaludercic]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > I am imagining a command like `package-fetch'.  You could give it a
>   > package name or a repository URL, and it would clone the contents into
>   > ~/.emacs.d/elpa/devel.  Package.el would treat this as a special kind of
>   > package (next to "installed", "dependency" and "built-in"), hopefully
>   > being able to reuse the existing package-loading functionality.
>
> I see the usefulness of this.
>
> The first step of it -- operating on a package name, which would very likely
> point to a repo site that we condemn, would put us into a moral contradiction.
> However, there's no moral problem in the rest of it.
>
> Would you like to implement `package-fetch' so that it always wants
> a URL as argument?

Do you mean to say that there is an issue in just cloning a git
repository from say GitHub?

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        Philip Kaludercic