Exclude files

[danielfleischer]

Similar to #11, keyword :files can help exclude some elisp files; some packages have extra extensions (org-ql + helm support) which can be excluded. Is there a way to support that?

[slotThe]

Is there a way to support that?

I don't believe so. Fundamentally, we are still constrained to the API that package-vc.el supports, and—at least currently—it does not support excluding files. Perhaps this could be a feature request to Emacs instead? I don't think this would be particularly hard to implement (famous last words, I know, but still).

(Personally, I also think it's better for this to be implemented at the package level; split off orq-ql-helm.el into an extra package, instead of having to awkwardly ignore single elisp files)

[danielfleischer]

(Personally, I also think it's better for this to be implemented at the package level; split off orq-ql-helm.el into an extra package, instead of having to awkwardly ignore single elisp files)

Exactly the usecase I had in mind!

I started a discussion on the mailing list. It appears there's an inherent technical and philosophical difference between ELPA packages and MELPA packages such that recipes can't be compatible and file-ignoring is not necessary when you follow ELPA packaging guideline. I could be wrong though. Either way, package-vc appears to not fill my needs right now. Maybe that'll change in the future.

[alphapapa]

(Personally, I also think it's better for this to be implemented at the package level; split off orq-ql-helm.el into an extra package, instead of having to awkwardly ignore single elisp files)

helm-org-ql is a separate package. Its source code file happens to live in the same repository as org-ql. For small, ancillary packages like helm-org-ql, it's often easier for the author to keep it together with the "parent" package.

ELPA packages and MELPA packages such that recipes can't be compatible and file-ignoring is not necessary when you follow ELPA packaging guideline.

It appears that at least 65 ELPA packages include :ignored-files in their recipes (see the elpa-packages file).

So it would seem that this is a reality that package-vc needs to handle.

[slotThe]

Implemented as of https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=68318dfd1652151f7d08f7682303499494a0c427

Thanks everyone for bringing this along!