Re: feature/integrated-elpa 4f6df43 15/23: README added

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> If everybody does the right thing. If not everybody does the right
>> thing, the old version gets loaded. Happened to me, it's hard to debug
>> and hard to work out what is going wrong.
>
> OK, so we agree that if everybody does the right thing, this will
> work.  That's all we need at this point, because we certainly don't
> need to cater to packages which do the wrong thing: such packages will
> be fixed in no time, because they are bundled and are part of any
> Emacs installation.

We should cater to packages which do the wrong thing, by ensuring that
the break quickly and obviously.


>> Seriously, honestly, definately, I will stop defending my proposal now,
>> because the discussion is not advancing at all.
>
> I hope we've reached the agreement that the lisp/ tree as it is can
> continue be used when some packages in it come from ELPA.

No, we've agreed to disagree. I think my solution is better, but I also
think that you have more say in these matters than I. I have no desire
to flog a dead horse, which is why I will withdraw the suggestion.

Phil