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

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:39:28 +0100

Hi Oleg,

Oleg Pykhalov <[email-masked]> skribis:

> 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?

Hmmm, not sure, Ricardo, what’s the story?  :-)

Ludo’.