Re: Core ELPA was: Testing fontification, indentation, and buffer manipulation

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Also, as a general rule, for technical reasons as well as for privacy
>> reasons we consider it important not to initiate network connections
>> unless the user explicitly requested that network connection.
>> [ Same reason why Emacs doesn't offer to auto-update packages at
>>   startup.  ]
>
> Yes, indeed, I can see this.
>
> What about this behaviour:
>
> ./configure    (as present -- no ELPA)
> ./configure --enable-elpa[=some-location]   (ELPA build support)
>
> make elpa-update           (clone or update ELPA to some-location or default)
> make                       (build Emacs with ELPA, break if not)
> make DEMOTE_ELPA_ERROR=1   (build Emacs with ELPA, warning if not)

Sounds OK (assuming `make` doesn't pull from elpa).


        Stefan