Re: [package-vc] Consider cleaning up files from install process

[Stefan Monnier]

> Well, I would expect it to act similarly to Quelpa:
>
> 1. Clone the git repo (shallowly, at least by default) to a directory
>    (perhaps a temporary one, but at least one stored in the appropriate XDG
>    cache directory, outside of user-emacs-directory).
>
> 2.  Call package-install-file on that worktree.
>
> 3.  The package ends up installed into package-user-dir as if it were
>     installed with package-install from ELPA.

So that treats the Git repository as a sort of "distribution site for
tarball-like thingies".  If you like it, use Quelpa (or argue for ELPA to
support other repository formats).
That's not the purpose of `package-vc`.

`package-vc`s purpose is to install the source so you can hack on it.


        Stefan