Subject: bug#60418: [PATCH] Add :vc keyword to use-package

From: Felician Nemeth <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 16:10:09 +0200

Philip Kaludercic <[email-masked]> writes:

> Felician Nemeth <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Philip Kaludercic <[email-masked]> writes:
>>
>>> package-vc can check out the latest revision that bumped the version tag
>>> (which is what {Non,}GNU ELPA uses to create new versions of a package),
>>> you just need to call `package-vc-install' with `:last-release' as REV.
>>> So the technical means are there.
>>>
>>> But if this is done, the question what advantage this has over just
>>> installing a tarball this has?  You would almost always get the same
>>> code.
>>
>> Convenience, I suppose.  You can copy your init file to a new machine,
>> and it will work.
>
> But isn't that is already given with use-package and package using
> tarballs?

I don't know, but a package might have just a public git repository
without tarballs.