From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47250) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7046-0002Q9-DF for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 06 May 2017 09:48:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7042-0000mc-4l for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 06 May 2017 09:48:06 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:59123) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d7042-0000mW-14 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 06 May 2017 09:48:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d7041-0007w5-Ot for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 06 May 2017 09:48:01 -0400 Subject: bug#26786: [PATCH] gnu: emacs-org: Update to 20170502. Resent-Message-ID: From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) References: <20170505174309.12870-1-va511e@yahoo.com> <265df8fb.AEMAKBlDVHMAAAAAAAAAAAO79XUAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZDOSB@mailjet.com> <87r303x8ka.fsf@gnu.org> <8082ba63.AEQAKHOcDVMAAAAAAAAAAAO7_ZEAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZDUwM@mailjet.com> Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 15:47:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: <8082ba63.AEQAKHOcDVMAAAAAAAAAAAO7_ZEAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZDUwM@mailjet.com> (Arun Isaac's message of "Sat, 06 May 2017 09:37:08 +0530") Message-ID: <874lwyw10q.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Arun Isaac Cc: 26786@debbugs.gnu.org Arun Isaac skribis: >>> I think we should build directly from org's release tarball at >>> http://orgmode.org/org-9.0.6.tar.gz instead of using the ELPA >>> tarball. It somehow feels like we are not building from source but >>> rather relying on a prepackaged tarball from ELPA. However, Nicolas >>> Goaziou, the org mode maintainer, >>> disagrees. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-08/msg013= 95.html >> >> I find Nicolas=E2=80=99s argument above (that building from ELPA makes t= he >> recipe trivial) pretty convincing. >> >> Why would you suggest using the tarball from orgmode.org? > > It seems like we are depending on an intermediary (ELPA) instead of > directly building from the original source. I feel that Guix packages > should not depend on other repositories (like ELPA). I agree with this sentiment, but my understanding is that ELPA is not really an =E2=80=9Cintermediary=E2=80=9D: package maintainers upload direct= ly there, and some upload only there. So I think it=E2=80=99s OK. Thoughts? Ludo=E2=80=99.