From David Dimagid: What we talk about when we talk about recommending Emacs packages (opens in new tab)

David Dimagid wrote this post for Emacs Carnival May 2026: "May I recommend…". Here it is! Someone recently said on emacs-devel that they'd like to talk about recommending ELPA packages. Someone else said we should first ask what "recommending" actually means. RMS opened a thread asking that very question. It's still open, and you can follow it there (ELPA: to curate or not to curate). I think we could apply Rich Hickey's technique here and start by looking up the definition of "recommend" in...