milkypostman/melpa — pull request #2127 by npostavs (2014-10-30 03:57:08+00:00)
Title: Don't include recipes in el-get package

The el-get installer works by bootstrapping from melpa installed code so
only the el-get recipe is needed. Because Emacs insists on listing every
single file when extracting from a tar file, including the recipes makes
the initial install quite a bit slower.

see dimitri/el-get#1975