Nicholas Vollmer

Hi. Thanks for the suggestion. What you're suggesting is referred to as a version lock file. There is currently the `elpaca-write-lockfile` function which will create an item menu with the...

> Any binary files will start to explode the size of the elpaca git blob. Not many packages include binary blobs. Are there specific packages which come to mind? It...

> How would storing the packages in git deal with local modifications? The state of the repos and builds directories are stored as is. So if you have local modifications,...

Thomas Fini Hansen ***@***.***> writes: > So how does one tell what is local modification? I assume the > history of the individual repo > directories isn't part of this....

Thomas Fini Hansen ***@***.***> writes: > In my case, that's 3 gigs of data, half a gig if going with > shallow checkouts. As with some > of the other...

Thomas Fini Hansen ***@***.***> writes: > Well, that's shallow repos most of it. Looking about, it seems > that elpaca will do shallow > clones and then fetch new history...

Thanks for chiming in. > I will give my 2¢ that this problem is the entire purpose of https://archive.softwareheritage.org/. Cool project. However, after kicking the tires, it looks like it's...

> If a pacakge literally lists `(transient "0.7.4")` in its `Package-Requires`, it seems to me a bug if a package manager does not react to that. It does react. It...

Thanks for taking the time to open a report. Please share the output of the following test case: Test Case [How to run this test?](https://github.com/progfolio/elpaca/wiki/Troubleshooting#the-elpaca-test-macro) ```emacs-lisp (elpaca-test :init (elpaca (auctex...

> Actually I had added auctex to elpaca-ignored-dependencies, so it should still > have worked Ah, that's vital to reproduce the issue. I've pushed a workaround on a test branch....