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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: daniele@grinta.net,  stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:06:59 -0500
> 
> >   Are you talking about something that already works, or about something
> >   that _could_ work, after some changes?  If the former, then where's
> >   the code to support it?
> >
> > My question was about the last part: it seemed to describe how things
> > _should_ work, but I'm not sure we already have that implemented.  Do
> > we?
> 
> What I'm describing is the use of a facility that was implemented for
> another use-case scenario.  There is no code to write to use that
> facility: just add the relevant directory to `package-directory-list`
> and you're done.  So yes, it's implemented and it works.

But that addition of a directory (or maybe more than one) to
package-directory-list -- that bit still needs to be done, for this to
really work, right?