woah, I've been using Emacs for years and never heard of Elpa. I always managed my .emacs by hand ...
ELPA may be worth looking into though.
Anyone have any first hand experience?
ELPA may be worth looking into though.
Anyone have any first hand experience?
* It doesn't have everything in it yet, so about half the packages I use I still have to manage manually. (Someday I'll have to figure out how to submit stuff to ELPA...)
* If you take your .emacs with you across multiple machines, you still need a way of keeping your packages in sync. I like the way the emacs-starter-kit deals with this problem: http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit/blob/b5d0aa7...
It's especially good for trying out packages that you're not sure you'll use on a regular basis.