Re: decision on moving core packages to ELPA; also move to obsolete?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 09:05:18 -0500
> 
> >> IOW the difficulty is not a question of implementing it but of deciding
> >> of the resulting tradeoffs (mostly around whether or not building from
> >> emacs.git should fetch the extra bundled GNU ELPA packages and if so
> >> when and how).
> > AFAIR, the main difficulty that remains to be resolved is how to allow
> > users to update a bundled package from ELPA.
> 
> I can't remember any such difficulty.  `package.el` is fully equipped to
> deal with having to choose between various versions of packages.

Not what I remember.  But maybe if you describe how to go about
upgrading/downgrading a bundled package, I will see where I am
confused.