Re: Adding packages to ELPA

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,  <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:41:14 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> >> - the maintainer of `foo' might not like to have to download a 300MB
> >>   repository to hack on her 300-lines package.
> >
> > ELPA is currently 52MB on my disk, which is not negligible (if 300MB
> > aren't).  Does this mean you will change your mind when ELPA hits
> > 100MB?
> 
> 
> I am a person who is hit by this problem.

What problem? to have 300MB more on your disk?  I'm sorry, but I have
hard time believing this could be a real problem for anybody these
days.