Re: On Contributing To Emacs

[Richard Stallman]

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  > straight.el is an alternative package manager that for the purposes of
  > this thread clones a Git repository directly instead of fetching the
  > package contents from a package archive like ELPA.

Thanks.

When you say "package manager", do you mean something like apt which
manages a fixed set of packages, or something like package.el which manages
a custom set of packages that the user specifies?

  >   I believe it does a
  > bit more along the lines of functional package managers like Nix and
  > Guix,

Guix is like apt -- it manages a set of packages provided by a site.
I think the same is true of Nix.


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