Re: elpa.gnu.org repository sync with Emacs

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:00:10 +0100 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> 
wrote: 

LMI> So...  ELPA would be for packages that we want to have readily available
LMI> in Emacs, but that we can't ever easily cut any cruft out of as Emacs
LMI> progresses?  But since the FSF-copyright assignment regime would still
LMI> apply to ELPA, we'd wouldn't be able to accept big packages like auctex
LMI> anyway?

You know, AUCTeX is in there...  http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/

Chong Yidong and the AUCTeX maintainers spent a lot of time getting the
copyrights done and putting the tarball together.

IMHO big packages are exactly where elpa.gnu.org will be most useful.

Ted