Re: PROPOSAL: Repurpose one key and reserve it for third-party packages

[Gregory Heytings]

[Why did you write your first mail off-list, your second one Cc'd to 
emacs-devel, and your third one Cc'd to help-gnu-emacs?]

> > When you install a package whose purpose is to change the user 
> > interface, you expect it will change the user interface, don't you? 
> > When you install an ad-blocker in your browser, you expect it will 
> > block ads, don't you?
>
> Again, the browser is a different situation.

For most users, it is not.  I guess you think the browser or GIMP are 
different situations, because you see them as mere tools, whereas you see 
Emacs as "more than a tool".  That's not the case for most Emacs users, 
for them Emacs is just a tool.  FWIW, when I open another editor, I see 
and use it as a mere tool for another task.

> This kind of aggressive behaviour just makes harder because you don't 
> know what is going on. This is how you confuse newcomers.

Regular users don't want to know what is going on, they don't care, and 
shouldn't have to care; for them an editor is just a tool for another 
task.