Re: Adding use-package to core

[xenodasein]

Nov 13, 2022, 20:04 by eliz@gnu.org:

>> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2022 20:02:16 +0100 (CET)
>> From: xenodasein@tutanota.de
>> Cc: "xenodasein--- viaEmacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
>>  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, stefankangas@gmail.com
>>
>> You said this can be fixed, of course but wouldn't it be much
>> easier to do without fighting backwards compatibility issues of
>> core code?
>>
>
> Why would maintaining use-package in core present more
> backward-compatibility issues than when it's maintained outside?
>

Same reason emacs-devel is not responsible for every single line of
Elisp code on the Internet?  External packages seem to get more love
from their developers.  If not, something new replaces them, people
migrate, and nobody complains to Emacs bug list about it.