Interoperation between package managers (was: Friendly discussion about (package-initialize))

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Part of "make them interoperate" may involve changing the formats
>> accepted&|used by the various tools, indeed (on-disk, on-the-server,
>> ...).
> Note that source-based package managers such as Borg and straight.el
> are fundamentally incompatible with the package.el format (or,
> depending on your perspective, the package.el format is fundamentally
> incompatible with source-based package managers such as Borg and
> straight.el).

Hmm... really?  Could you expand on why that is?


        Stefan