Re: Keeping an ELPA checkout

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> The trunk-built Emacs may need to have been installed system-wide.
SM> No, that's undesirable.
> ...so are we then installing in the locally-compiled Emacs (modifying
> files under $trunk) or for the user (modifying init/custom files)?

No, I'd rather we only modify files under $elpa.
Then the user is in charge of adding a (load "$elpa/foo-bar.el") to his
.emacs (or site-start, ...).

Remember, this is a setup intended for maintainers, that you do once and
then you forget about it (because you just "bzr update; make").


        Stefan