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[bug#34865] [PATCH] Add emacs-zones.
From: |
Oleg Pykhalov |
Subject: |
[bug#34865] [PATCH] Add emacs-zones. |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Mar 2019 23:01:34 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Ludovic,
Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
[…]
>> Could we use emacs-zones from Elpa? See
>> https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/zones.html . ‘guix import elpa
>> emacs-zones’ will produce a decent ‘origin’ record 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?
Oleg.
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