From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding packages to ELPA Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:45:07 +0300 Message-ID: <83wq8zzkak.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87wq97i78i.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <87sijqxzr2.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <877g11c8wh.fsf@gmx.us> <83fvfo15z7.fsf@gnu.org> <8361gj20h7.fsf@gnu.org> <83zjdvzmd5.fsf@gnu.org> <87bnqb7h45.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411141569 20305 80.91.229.3 (19 Sep 2014 15:46:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:46:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 19 17:45:56 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XV0Ng-0007Jz-Q5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:45:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59107 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XV0Ng-0004gc-Fr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:45:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58798) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XV0NF-0004co-CU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:45:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XV0NA-0006e8-GH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:45:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:51601) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XV0NA-0006YF-79 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:45:24 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NC500B00N648300@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:45:17 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NC500BLJNRG0W40@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:45:17 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87bnqb7h45.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174558 Archived-At: > From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) > Cc: Stefan Monnier , > Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:41:14 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> - the maintainer of `foo' might not like to have to download a 300MB > >> repository to hack on her 300-lines package. > > > > ELPA is currently 52MB on my disk, which is not negligible (if 300MB > > aren't). Does this mean you will change your mind when ELPA hits > > 100MB? > > > I am a person who is hit by this problem. What problem? to have 300MB more on your disk? I'm sorry, but I have hard time believing this could be a real problem for anybody these days.