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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Bleeding edge in elpa
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:59:23 -0400
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tftorrey@tftorrey.com (T.F. Torrey) writes:

> Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> writes:

>  ...
>> Exposing new users to the vagaries of the master branch may rather lead
>> to atheism.
>
> This sounds like the foot-shooting argument again.  Could one not just
> as easily harm one's foot with the master version from git?  Or is the
> assumption that only git users are smart enough to wield the power?
> Maybe Org is so powerful that it should not be released via by ELPA at
> all, for the sake of everyone's appendages.
>

I took Aaaron's comment to mean that most users would be happier *not*
using the master branch (however obtained), relying instead on the maint
branch.

Nick