Eric S Fraga <[email protected]> writes:
> Response below/inline for email tpeplt wrote:
>> (original email sent 19 Feb 2026 at 09:56)
>>
>> Possibly, ‘package-archives’ has a different value for Emacs
>> 30.2 than it does in development?
>
> I apologise. gnus-alias is not in either ELPA or the non GNU archive.
>
> However, it is definitely in MELPA:
>
> https://melpa.org/#/gnus-alias
>
> and it appears in package-list-packages or describe-package if you have
> the MELPA archive enabled:
Note that ‘gnus-alias’ is not included in the Melpa Stable
archive (which has roughly half the number of packages as
Melpa).
When recommending packages to new, inexperienced Emacs
users, it would be a good idea to tell (warn?) them that
they are using packages that have not yet been deemed
"stable".
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("melpa-stable" . "https://stable.melpa.org/packages/";) t)
(Needless to say, that has not stopped Emacs users from
using Melpa instead of Melpa Stable. Melpa has over 400
million downloads, while Melpa Stable has about 9 million
downloads. It is impossible to know whether the users of
Melpa are mostly downloading the sub-set of packages in
Melpa Stable.)
--
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds.
