Re: NonGNU ELPA

[Stefan Monnier]

> I think the right metric would be the MELPA archive: I don't know how bit
> a complete checkout is of all MELPA packages.

Hmm... wait, after "git gc" the figure is even more favorable:

    % du -sh elpa/.git/. /var/www/html/packages/.
    144M    elpa/.git/.
    918M    /var/www/html/packages/.
    %

IOW, the main problem with size is the ELPA archive itself rather than
the Git repository.

> The main problem would be cases in which an emacs mode exists as part of
> a larger repo (like llvm-mode, which is part of llvm — it was removed from
> MELPA because it took too long just to close the repo).

These need to be solved on a case-by-case basis, yes.


        Stefan