Subject: Re: bug#46441: GNU ELPA feature request: host .lz archives (as well as uncompressed) for current versions

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:08:21 +0000

Mauricio Collares <[email-masked]> writes:

> Thanks for the reply! The particular use case here is to have a
> reproducible environment via the Nix package manager. Omitting
> irrelevant details, Nix is a source-based package manager whose
> "recipes" for building packages typically start by doing the equivalent
> of "download this file with this sha256 from this URL" (actually, this
> is typically done by fetching a specific commit from a repository, but
> in this case I believe tarballs are the only option);

What are the obstacles to fetching from elpa.git here?
E.g. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/?h=externals/auctex

Thanks,

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Basil