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Subject: [bug#34865] [PATCH] Add emacs-zones.
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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:39:28 +0100
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To: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com>
Cc: Brian Leung <bkleung89@gmail.com>, 34865@debbugs.gnu.org

Hi Oleg,

Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
> [=E2=80=A6]
>
>>> 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 rec=
ord 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 :-( .
>
>> Or am I confusing things?
>
> We preferred ELPA over GitHub's Git repositories in emacs-xys.scm
> (emacs.scm in past), didn't we?

Hmmm, not sure, Ricardo, what=E2=80=99s the story?  :-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.