Re: feature/package+vc 04c4c578c7 3/4: Allow for packages to be installed directly from VCS

[Philip Kaludercic]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> One thing I recently noticed are :url entries of the form
>>
>>     "bzr::https://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/org-edna-el";
>>
>> or
>>
>>     "hg::https://hg.savannah.nongnu.org/hgweb/enwc/";
>>
>> How are these handled?  I couldn't find anything specific to this in
>> elpa-admin.el.  Is this a Git feature?
>
> Yes, it's a Git feature.  Git will use the `git-remote-FOO` extension to
> access those repositories.  In my experience it tends not to work super
> reliably and those extensions aren't installed in `elpa.gnu.org` so we
> don't auto-update from those repositories.

That also means that these repositories should either be filtered out
from elpa-packages.eld or the format should indicate that VC backend is used.