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Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages |
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Wed, 20 Jan 2016 22:02:43 -0500 |
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> Someone will have to, at the right time, make an
> argument that the code should be removed, and be willing to advocate for
> it. This is too high a burden for code that's been in obsolete for years.
> I think the burden should be on people to advocate for it's continued
> existence.
(You mean "its", not "it's".)
I disagree. Deleting something that people once used
should not be semiautomatic.
How about proposing some obsolete features for deletion
and we can think about deleting them in Emacs 25.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/20
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, John Wiegley, 2016/01/20
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Andrés Ramírez, 2016/01/20
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, John Wiegley, 2016/01/20
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/20
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Andrés Ramírez, 2016/01/20
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/01/20
- Re: A proposal for removing obsolete packages, Andrew Hyatt, 2016/01/23
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