Re: Candidate packages for ELPA bundling [Was: Re: Why not include all ELPA packages in an Emacs release?]

[Po Lu]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> The plan was for the Emacs code to have not just a list of GNU ELPA
> packages to bundle, but also the specific commit to use: on `master`
> this list would presumably be auto-updated every once in a while to
> point to the "latest and greatest" of those packages, and then on the
> release branch this would presumably be updated only manually.

What's the substantial difference between this and the status quo?