Re: Future role of ELPA

[Stefan Monnier]

> 1. Not only emacs provides a package manager. Linux distributions also
>    provide some packages. Not sure if this is a good idea.
>    The same situation is e.g. for python. You can use pip to install
>    packages. And there are python packages provided by distributions.
>    Some people prefer OS packages, some prefer the native package manager.
>    Not sure what to do about this situation.

It's easy to make a .deb package which installs an Elisp package in the
way package.el would have installed it (but with global scope).

The two aren't 100% equivalent (upgrading/removing a dpkg-installed
package via package.el won't do the right thing), but the Debian
packages can easily do better than what is there now.


        Stefan