> because one person's "just a package-install away" is another's "should be bundled by default". FWIW, it's also another's "has transitive dependencies that t

> because one person's "just a package-install away" is another's "should be bundled by default". FWIW, it's also another's "has transitive dependencies that try to brick my computer". Claims like "just a package-install away" would be significantly more convincing if they could fix that (ie, fix (remove) the ability of packages to have transitive dependencies). (This isn't anything specific to EMACS, to be clear; I've never seen a mainstream package system that bothered to enforce a meaningful limit on the depth of dependency graphs.)