Re: policy discussion on bundling ELPA packages in the emacs tarball

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
> Cc: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 12:10:02 -0800
> 
> Do you agree that having one full copy of the ELPA repository in your
> local emacs .git repository is acceptable?

IMO, people who are interested only in packages bundled with Emacs
should not need to have ELPA on their local machines.  Not even one
checkout of ELPA should be needed.  They should just need to clone the
Emacs Git repository (modulo the submodules-related options), and
that's all.  Exactly like they do today: there's no need to clone ELPA
to have a fully functional clone of the Emacs Git repository.

> For developers who also have elpa.git cloned separately, that's a
> duplicate copy.

Which it shouldn't be.