Dmitry Gutov<dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:
There is a particular advantage for optional features being in ELPA:
people can browse it and search the list of keywords. It serves as a
tool for discovery for many.
When the package is in the core, it doesn't appear in any of similar
structured lists, you really have to hunt around for discover those
features.
Maybe more "optional but built-in" packages should be visible in `M-x
list-packages'? Would that help? It's not hard to do: we just add a
"Version" header and that's it, I think.