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

[Daniele Nicolodi]

On 15/12/2020 06:06, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:40:49 -0500
>> Cc: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> IOW the difficulty is not a question of implementing it but of deciding
>> of the resulting tradeoffs (mostly around whether or not building from
>> emacs.git should fetch the extra bundled GNU ELPA packages and if so
>> when and how).
> 
> AFAIR, the main difficulty that remains to be resolved is how to allow
> users to update a bundled package from ELPA.

Do you mean this in a technical way or in an user experience way? Org is
distributed as part of Emacs but it is routinely also installed and
updated from ELPA and AFAIK it does not implement any special trick to
make this work smotly.

Cheers,
Dan