From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: In Support of ELPA Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:37:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87eftmejer.fsf@russet.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1499812667 1333 195.159.176.226 (11 Jul 2017 22:37:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 22:37:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 12 00:37:44 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dV3mo-00005N-6v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:37:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49213 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dV3mt-00075n-Qh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:37:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35381) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dV3mn-00075V-Ob for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:37:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dV3mk-0003uR-Lc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:37:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=51889 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dV3mk-0003u2-ER for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:37:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dV3mV-0007i4-Ln for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:37:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:SvFFs31qIbQsL/WIsOW0gCYdrJU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216508 Archived-At: > I think, though, this is still a bit clunky. I think it would be nice to > add support for MELPA recipes directly in ELPA. This was adding an MELPA > package to ELPA would require simply copying the recipe from MELPA. I find it is important for GNU ELPA not to *pull* from outside hosts that are not under our control. Instead code should be pushed to it by people who have write access (hence take on the responsibility of paying attention to copyright and such). Stefan