Hi Alex,

Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:

> Unfortunately, we can't use sources from MELPA.  The problem is: when a
> repository get a new commit, the old tarball is *REPLACED* with the new
> one on MELPA, so the package could never be built anymore, since the
> source disappeared.  That's why we use tarballs directly from source.

OK.  I saw some melpa packages in emacs.scm though.  Will they be
removed in future?

> I see that this "dired-hacks" repository is split into multiple packages
> on MELPA, and you follow this path, however I think it would be much
> easier for us just to have a single "emacs-dired-hacks" package.
> Otherwise, we'll have to pick single files for all these "dired-open",
> "dired-avfs" and other packages, which is not convenient.
>
> What do you think?  Are there any objections on making a single
> "dired-hacks" package?

I'm not sure if splitting is worth.  I use only dired-open from this
project.  So, I cannot be sure about other addons.  For example, I have
some warnings and errors while building full addons collection but
dired-open works though.