XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist   
   From: spwhitton@spwhitton.name   
      
   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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