Re: porting crufty old init.el to package management

[jpkotta]

On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 10:42:19 PM UTC-5, Rusi wrote:
> On Monday, March 24, 2014 5:07:26 AM UTC+5:30, Tom Roche wrote:
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> > I've been using emacs for ~20 years, during which I have
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> > 1. accumulated a functional but aesthetically- and maintenance-challenged
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> > collection of {init.el, files it calls}
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> > 2. regularly bemoaned the lack of emacs package management
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> > The latter problem has been solved (non-uniquely :-) for awhile now,
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> > and I'm setting up a new box, so I really should port my emacs
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> > configuration to the new millenium. I'm wondering, would anyone care
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> > to recommend especially worthy docs for this process (guides,
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> > howto's, tutorials)? esp how best to accommodate snippets of elisp
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> > (gists?)
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> Im also an old geezer looking to changing to the new package system
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> The first thing I see is that there are a lot of package repos:
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> elpa (2 of them), melpa, marmalade...
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> Which/how to choose??

I have an answer on SO about this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14836958/updating-packages-in-emacs/14838150#14838150