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GNU ELPA feature request: host .lz archives (as well as uncompressed) for current versions

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Message #20 received at 46441 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Mauricio Collares <mauricio <at> collares.org>
Cc: 46441 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#46441: GNU ELPA feature request: host .lz archives (as well
 as uncompressed) for current versions
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:08:21 +0000

Mauricio Collares <mauricio <at> collares.org> 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,

-- 
Basil

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