Subject: Re: bug#59609: 29.0.50; [PATCH] Better advertise (Non-)GNU ELPA in emacs manual

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 17:54:08 -0500

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  > +  By default, Emacs downloads packages from GNU ELPA
  > +(@url{https://elpa.gnu.org/}), a package archive maintained by the
  > +Emacs developers and hosted by the GNU project.  It also downloads
  > +packages from NonGNU ELPA (@url{https://elpa.nongnu.org/}).

I think it is ok to say this provided that these are packages we can't
or should not include in Emacs, so people can't depend on them
to continue to be present.

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