Re: Integrating package.el

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:
>> I've also got a quick prototype of a DVCS-centric archive management
>> tool (for gathering packages from library authors and publishing them)
>> that I will post soon once I've fleshed it out a bit more.
> This sounds good to me. I believe that ELPA should not hold the files
> but rather have pointers to them. Otherwise the turnaround time will
> be longer for changes made to the files.

The default repositor(y|ies) will want to be under FSF control (not just
the copyright, but we also want to have a copy of the files, etc...) so
we can assume that the FSF will usually also hold the "master
repository" for those packages.

I.e. we probably don't want to only hold pointers to files.  Tho of
course, such an indirection might still be useful somewhere.


        Stefan