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Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: names


From: Philip Kaludercic
Subject: Re: Fetching or installing package dev source from VCS: names
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 07:04:18 +0000

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>   > > In the case of NonGNU ELPA, which repo does this access?
>   > > Our repo?
>
>   > That is open, the repository it uses depends on the metadata that ELPA
>   > provides.  If that is missing it uses a heuristic to guess a repository
>   > from the URL, in case contains a link to a "well-known" source force.
>
> I think NonGNU ELPA always has its own repo for every package.  For
> some packages, that repo gets updated automatically from an outside
> repo.  For a package that is updated automatically like that, I think
> it is best to use the outside repo.

Unless I am mistaken, this is the default for NonGNU ELPA.

> When the NonGNU ELPA repo for the package is NOT updated
> automatically, I think this should use the NonGNU ELPA repo.

As I said, my understanding is that this would only apply to GNU ELPA.



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