Subject: bug#60923: 29.0.60; package-vc-install: Allow specifying directories

From: Philip Kaludercic <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:59:41 +0000

Mohammed Sadiq <[email-masked]> writes:

> When installing packages from vc, I want to ignore some directories (eg:
> tests directory). I would like package-vc-install to have an option to
> accept list of directories to ignore or include (eg: if source is in src
> subdirectory)

What does "ignore" mean in this context?  On ELPA we have the following
attribute for package specifications:

  ** =:ignored-files FILES=
  Names of files or directories that should not be included in the tarballs.

package.el already supports ignoring the contents of a .elpaignore file,
but all that does is remove a few files from the byte-compilation process.

-- 
Philip Kaludercic