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Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages

From Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.maint.emacsen
Subject Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages
Date 2024-10-01 17:40 +0200
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Hello,

On Tue 01 Oct 2024 at 07:43am -03, David Bremner wrote:

> I think my original idea was to treat emacs-goodies-el as a transitional
> package and have it go away eventually. If other people think it's
> useful and want to maintain it, that's fine of course. In the long term
> what is the relationship between a continued emacs-goodies-el and your
> other proposed meta-package (emacs-editing-modes?).

Yeah, we wanted to get rid of emacs-goodies-el.

I think there is a stronger case for emacs-{editing,major}-modes.  It
seems like "just give me all the major modes" is something people would
want, and "give me a random selection of Emacs addons" or even "give me
all the Emacs addons" are not.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2024-10-01 03:30 +0200
  Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages David Bremner <david@tethera.net> - 2024-10-01 13:00 +0200
    Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-10-01 17:40 +0200
      Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2024-10-02 08:20 +0200
        Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-10-02 08:50 +0200
          Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2024-10-18 00:30 +0200
            Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages Nicholas D Steeves <sten@debian.org> - 2024-10-18 03:40 +0200
              Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-10-18 06:40 +0200
                Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2024-10-18 07:30 +0200
                Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-10-18 11:40 +0200
                Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Recommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2024-10-19 03:30 +0200
                Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Recommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-10-20 07:40 +0200
              Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2024-10-18 07:20 +0200
            Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Reccommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-10-18 06:40 +0200
  Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Recommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-10-20 11:30 +0200
  Bug#1083073: emacs-goodies-el: Use Recommends instead of Depends to provide more flexibility in choosing packages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-10-20 13:10 +0200

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