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From: | Andy Moreton |
Subject: | Re: policy discussion on bundling ELPA packages in the emacs tarball |
Date: | Thu, 28 Jan 2021 03:34:02 +0000 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (windows-nt) |
On Wed 27 Jan 2021, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> So one way to eliminate the ballast is to split Gnu ELPA into one >> repository per package; then git submodule will only download the >> repository for that package. > > There's a strong technical reason why `elpa.git` and `nongnu.git` are > single repositories: Savannah does not let us create new repositories > nor change their default branch, nor setup/change the commit-diffs for > them. Every time such a thing needs to happen, we have to ask > a sysadmin to do it for us. Using technical means to work around a social/political problem usually results in later difficulties. AndyM
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