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

[Stefan Monnier]

> So one way to eliminate the ballast is to split Gnu ELPA into one
> repository per package; then git submodule will only download the
> repository for that package.

There's a strong technical reason why `elpa.git` and `nongnu.git` are
single repositories: Savannah does not let us create new repositories
nor change their default branch, nor setup/change the commit-diffs for
them.  Every time such a thing needs to happen, we have to ask
a sysadmin to do it for us.

So for the foreseeable future, "one repository per package" is
a complete non-starter.  [ The "all in one repository" approach also
has other advantages, but there's no point weighing their importance
since there's currently no credible alternative anyway.  ]


        Stefan