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Bug#1111919: emacs-editing-major-modes: do not depend or recommend modes that depend or recommend on implementation of language



Hello,

On Sat 23 Aug 2025 at 06:05pm +02, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

> Package: emacs-editing-major-modes
> Version: 1.2
> Severity: normal
>
> Installing emacs-editing-major-modes wants to install 1 GiB of
> packages... because it depends on emacs modes packages that themselves
> are not big, but that themselves depend or recommend the
> implementation for the language whose syntax they fontify.
>
> This renders the package rather not useful to install blindly to "get
> all major emacs editing modes". This package should at most suggest
> any such emacs mode package. Feel free to instead convince the package
> maintainer of the emacs mode package to suggest their language
> implementation instead of recommending or depending on it.
>
> In terms of size, elpa-haskell-mode is by far the main culprit, but
> others include elpa-gnuplot-mode elpa-agda2-mode elpa-markdown-mode

I don't think we should change emacs-editing-major-modes here.

Instead we should consider changing those other modes.  Or possibly do
nothing: maybe things are better overall as they are.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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