Re: document package.el

[Uday S Reddy]

On 8/27/2010 12:27 AM, Juri Linkov wrote:

> I guess we need something like `require',
> e.g. (package-require FEATURE&optional FILENAME NOERROR).
>
> So you could put in your .emacs:
>
>    (package-require 'company)
>    (package-require 'js2-mode)
>    (package-require 'rainbow-mode)
>
> and it will take care of installing and activating
> your preferred packages on a new installation.

Separating out the .emacs issue, I think it would indeed be a good idea to have 
the preferred-package list stored somewhere so that we can use it for new 
installations.

There is the ~/.emacs.d/elpa/archives directory.  Would it be possible to copy 
this to a new installation in order to tell package.el what to install?

To tell you the truth, I am quite unclear yet what package.el can do, not 
having seen a manual for it.  Does it exist somewhere?

Cheers,
Uday