From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51320) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h96Fx-0001Sk-LQ for guix-patches@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 06:58:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h96Fv-0008Nv-Mq for guix-patches@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 06:58:05 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47344) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h96Fu-0008NR-6r for guix-patches@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 06:58:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1h96Ft-00065X-Sh for guix-patches@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 06:58:01 -0400 Subject: [bug#34865] [PATCH] Add emacs-zones. Resent-Message-ID: From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= References: <87o96bulym.fsf@gmail.com> <87y3561tgq.fsf@gnu.org> <87ftrct529.fsf@gmail.com> <87va06ht4f.fsf@gnu.org> <87tvfp52hm.fsf@elephly.net> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 11:57:22 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87tvfp52hm.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Tue, 26 Mar 2019 11:55:33 +0100") Message-ID: <87va04fuul.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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: 34865@debbugs.gnu.org, Brian Leung Hello, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: [...] >>>>> Could we use emacs-zones from Elpa? See >>>>> https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/zones.html . =E2=80=98guix import elpa >>>>> emacs-zones=E2=80=99 will produce a decent =E2=80=98origin=E2=80=99 r= ecord to pull a source. >>>> >>>> My understanding is that ELPA and MELPA tarballs are not necessarily >>>> persistent and immutable, and that we generally prefer referring >>>> directly to the upstream repo. >>> >>> Ouch, I thought ELPA is persistent. That's a significant argument to >>> not use ELPA for our purposes :-( . > > I only know that MELPA isn=E2=80=99t immutable. I assumed that ELPA is f= ine. [...] > git-fetch is the preferred way when there are no stable tarballs. So, Oleg, I think you can go either way, but fetching over Git is probably safer. Can you apply the patch? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.