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Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> wrote:
> Peter Lee <pete_lee@swbell.net> writes:
>> One obvious solution is to pull it out of Emacs all together.
>> Maintain it as a seperate package only.
>
> That is a possibility, especially given that some GNU/Linux
> distributions (well, at least Debian) distribute Gnus as a separate
> package which is often more up-to-date than the version bundled with
> Emacs.

And IMO it is the better solution rather than removing any code from
Gnus which many people use. If RMS doesn't like Gnus as it is
currently, then he'll just don't get it into Emacs.