Re: Packages quality (was: [nongnu] main 74116339a8 2/3: * elpa-packages (anzu): New package)

[Stefan Kangas]

"Bozhidar Batsov" <bozhidar@batsov.dev> writes:

> I'm also curious what "redundant package" even means in this
> context. There are always many ways to achieve something and usually
> there's no clear way to decide if some approach is much better than
> the alternatives. Given how early we are with NonGNU ELPA I think that
> concerns about "obsolete" and "redundant" packages are quite overdone.

I don't think it's time to start pruning NGE, indeed, but we could avoid
adding packages that are on MELPA that are already obviously
obsolete/superseded.

For example, I use the software "anki" quite a lot, and there are four
different packages for it.  I have tried all of them, and frankly
speaking only one of those packages is relevant.  Therefore, I would
advise against adding the others; as Philip points out, this is more
likely to waste users time than be very helpful.