Re: porting crufty old init.el to package management

[Neal Becker]

Rusi wrote:

> On Monday, March 24, 2014 5:07:26 AM UTC+5:30, Tom Roche wrote:
>> I've been using emacs for ~20 years, during which I have
> 
>> 1. accumulated a functional but aesthetically- and maintenance-challenged
>> collection of {init.el, files it calls}
>> 2. regularly bemoaned the lack of emacs package management
> 
>> The latter problem has been solved (non-uniquely :-) for awhile now,
>> and I'm setting up a new box, so I really should port my emacs
>> configuration to the new millenium. I'm wondering, would anyone care
>> to recommend especially worthy docs for this process (guides,
>> howto's, tutorials)? esp how best to accommodate snippets of elisp
>> (gists?)
> 
> 
> Im also an old geezer looking to changing to the new package system
> The first thing I see is that there are a lot of package repos:
> 
> elpa (2 of them), melpa, marmalade...
> 
> Which/how to choose??

I use:
(require 'felineherd)