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

[Andy Moreton]

On Wed 27 Jan 2021, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> 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.

Using technical means to work around a social/political problem usually
results in later difficulties.

    AndyM