Re: New ELPA policy proposal

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: John Wiegley <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 06:24:15 -0800
> 
> >>>>> Oleh Krehel <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> Why not have only one distribution, the full one?
> 
> > If fine with it, if that's what we agree upon. Some people might still care
> > about bandwidth. I don't. But we do offer emacs-24.5.tar.gz and
> > emacs-24.5.tar.xz variants currently, I assume it's for the purposes of
> > bandwidth.
> 
> I'd be fine with just one "full distribution" too, unless there are other
> strong objections. It ought to be a difference of tens of megabytes at most.

emacs-24.5.tar.xz is 38MB.  IMO, that's not "large" by any measure
nowadays.