Re: Bundling ELPA packages with Emacs

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 22:07:44 -0400
>> 
>>   > The current idea of including ELPA packages is to include them in the
>>   > release tarball, so that for the end-user it looks exactly like a core
>>   > package.
>> 
>> We can do that with some GNU ELPA packages, but the GNU Project cannot
>> distribute NonGNU ELPA packages as part of GNU Emacs.
>
> It is indeed planned to do that only with packages on GNU ELPA.  But
> we haven't yet figured some important aspects of including ELPA
> packages in release tarballs, so the idea is there, but it is not yet
> actionable.

I was under the assumption that issue was resolved, if
`package-directory-list' would contain the right directory?