Re: Moving packages out of core to ELPA

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2024 14:19:05 +0200
> Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> 
> On 18/02/2024 09:14, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>>>    It deserves support in Emacs.  Just not, IMO, in core.
> >>> Why not?  Why does_anything_, to speak nothing of a package already in
> >>> core, not "deserve" support in core, while deserving support in ELPA?
> >> Because in ELPA, users must proactively opt-in to the use of the package.  
> >> For such users — those who have actively sought it out — in stark contrast 
> >> to the vast majority of Emacs users, the benefits dramatically outweigh 
> >> the costs.
> > The costs are minuscule, so it isn't worth considering them in such
> > cases.
> 
> Those who say that the costs of maintenance is tiny, seem to have missed 
> the simple statement

They did?