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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add emacs-better-defaults.
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 11:11:22 -0400
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On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wrote=
:
> David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
>
>> * gnu/packages/emacs.scm (emacs-better-defaults): New variable.
>
> [...]
>
>> +       (uri (string-append "http://stable.melpa.org/packages/better-def=
aults-"
>> +                           version ".el"))
>
> IIRC, MELPA URLs are not stable over time (modified in place) and for
> this reason we usually fetch things from Git instead.
>
> Could you do that here?

Fixed and pushed.  Thanks Ludo and Alex!

- Dave