Re: [nongnu] elpa/rainbow-delimiters a32b39bdfe: Add license file with GPLv3

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> And while we are at it, is there a reason not to add a MELPA-like
> keyword to manually specify what files are part of a package?  Whenever
> a single repository is used to maintain multiple packages (like Magit or
> Embark) there is always a long list of :ignored-files that have to be
> duplicated for every package.  Perhaps a more general version of
> .elpaignore could be used to declare packages externally.

I'm not very much in favor:

- We currently don't support such packages well anyway.
  There are various more-or-less minor annoyances that could be fixed
  without too much effort, e.g. the various Magit-derived packages get
  redundantly auto-sync'd, and they result in duplicate worktrees
  (unless you manually replace them with symlinks, admittedly).

- It gets worse when you consider installation via Git (rather
  than via ELPA), in which case you get all the sub-packages in your
  `load-path` even if you only activate one of them; and it's not
  clear how to fix that.

This second point (to me) means that we want to discourage these kinds of
multi-packages that are bundled in a single branch.


        Stefan