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From: | Jim Porter |
Subject: | bug#65027: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Document .elpaignore behavior in the Emacs Lisp manual |
Date: | Thu, 3 Aug 2023 15:02:12 -0700 |
Maybe it would make sense to put all the documentation in the Emacs Lisp manual, and then the GNU ELPA README can be the home for documentation about how to work with the GNU ELPA repository specifically (mainly as an administrator).FWIW, that's how it started. It's just that some of the conventions originally used only in (Non)GNU ELPA have now made their way into `package.el`.
As a general guideline for documentation, I'm thinking that anything a package author puts in their own repository would get documented in the Emacs Lisp manual, whereas anything that goes in the (Non)GNU ELPA repository (e.g. in the elpa-packages file) goes in the ELPA README. That makes intuitive sense to me as a package author at least: then the Emacs Lisp manual would have everything I need to *prepare* my package for eventual inclusion in ELPA.
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