Daniel Mendler <[email protected]> writes:

> Also in my opinion it would be reasonable to simply not solve the
> "offline problem", if at the same time the "make clean" action is
> adjusted to not delete cached dependencies.

Morgan's patch only removes packages on make cleanall.

> ... If you
> also want to protect against "git clean" you could install the
> dependencies outside the repository, e.g., in $XDG_CACHE_HOME/org-dev-deps/.

That's a bad idea that can backfire if users need self-contained installation.
I would personally be frustrated if git clean -xfd did not put the
repository into truly clean state.

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