/r/emacs: “package-vc vs elapaca or straight. I have been using elpaca for the la…”

Post #28618 9 Sep 29, 2026, 09:07 UTC

package-vc vs elapaca or straight.

I have been using elpaca for the last year across different systems. The =elpaca/= directory is huge close to 1.6 GB. Does package-vc also has this disk space requirement?

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