el-get

Mostly use-package for configuring and installing (as far as I know it uses builtin package-install) (use-package which-key :config (which-key-mode)) https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package#use-package-ensure-s... Historically, el-get e.g.: (el-get-bundle ace-link) https://github.com/dimitri/el-get#el-get-elpa-and-packageel

I concur, el-get is quite nice and can install/manage packages from a wide variety of sources, sort of like Arch's AUR. It's at https://github.com/dimitri/el-get.

el-get (apt-get for Emacs packages) is really an order of magnitude better than dealing with raw ELPA et al: https://github.com/dimitri/el-get

I recently refactored my Emacs config[1] to use el-get[2], which lets you install from the official package list from random git repos, and even from the emacs wiki if you're so inclined. My config is quite a bit simpler and easier to back on than it was before. [1]: https://github.com/peterkeen/dotfiles [2]: https://github.com/dimitri/el-get

Check out el-get: "Short Story: el-get allows you to install and manage elisp code for Emacs. It supports lots of differents types of sources and is able to install them, update them and remove them, but more importantly it will init them for you." https://github.com/dimitri/el-get

OK. I was wrong about licensing requirements. I think you're slightly confused about el-get's purpose: it isn't to replace package.el. el-get supplements package.el and provides options for people who want to run the latest and greatest versions of libraries, or who can't be bothered to monitor the odd elisp snippet and update Marmalade every time it changes. Personally, I find el-get recipes so easy to install and create that I never use package.el at all, but that isn't the goal of el-get developers. Here is an example recipe for el-get. I haven't tried creating uploading anything to Marmalade yet, so I can't compare the ease of use. https://github.com/dimitri/el-get/blob/master/recipes/evil.r... One last note: You may find that el-get lowers the barrier for contributing to libraries. If you find the odd bug in a mode you use, the sourc

It isn't an official part of Emacs, but no Emacs user should go without installing el-get, the meta-package-manager for Emacs. https://github.com/dimitri/el-get El-get can install and update elisp from git, svn, http, and EmacsWiki. (It also wraps ELPA and apt-get where packages exist.) If el-get doesn't have a recipe for your favorite Emacs extension, please consider adding the recipe and pushing to GitHub. (It doesn't take long - most recipes are only a few lines long.) Don't forget to issue a pull request for the rest of us.

El-get is a package manager that really helps with the plugins. It allows you to install them very easily and update them with just one command, among other things. https://github.com/dimitri/el-get

And Dave Abrahams is now actively developing el-get, which I prefer to ELPA. http://github.com/dimitri/el-get

This requires a bit more work but is also more flexible: https://github.com/dimitri/el-get It helps you manage emacs packages and elisp that are not packaged.