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Subject: Re: Packaging criteria
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Sorry, I'm waaaay behind on this packaging debate so apologies if
these comments aren't relevent.

1. I think that modes to edit C, Emacs Lisp, and TeXinfo must remain
   part of core XEmacs because these are the languages that X/Emacs
   itself is written in.  The message being sent by keeping these
   bundled even with the leanest distribution, is that *everyone* has
   the basic ability to work on and extend Emacs.

2. I hope BloatXEmacs will always be distributed.  For me, the
   bandwidth and disk space costs upfront are well worth having
   everything nicely integrated.  I have a very diverse Emacs user
   crowd so I'd bet nearly every package gets used by *somebody*
   around here. :-)

-Barry

