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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