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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