Subject: [bug#34865] [PATCH] Add emacs-zones.

From: Oleg Pykhalov <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 23:01:34 +0300

Hi Ludovic,

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> 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.