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Emacs Config

• Package Management
  • El Paca

Package Management

First, disable package.el during early init

(setq package-enable-at-startup nil)

El Paca

Elpaca: An Elisp Package Manager

Apparently the developer of straight.el is working on this, which is a cleaner implementation of the package.

(declare-function elpaca-generate-autoloads "elpaca")
(defvar elpaca-directory (expand-file-name "elpaca/" user-emacs-directory))
(when-let ((elpaca-repo (expand-file-name "repos/elpaca/" elpaca-directory))
            (elpaca-build (expand-file-name "builds/elpaca/" elpaca-directory))
            (elpaca-target (if (file-exists-p elpaca-build) elpaca-build elpaca-repo))
            (elpaca-url  "https://www.github.com/progfolio/elpaca.git")
            ((add-to-list 'load-path elpaca-target))
            ((not (file-exists-p elpaca-repo)))
            (buffer (get-buffer-create "*elpaca-bootstrap*")))
(condition-case-unless-debug err
    (progn
        (unless (zerop (call-process "git" nil buffer t "clone" elpaca-url elpaca-repo))
        (error "%s" (list (with-current-buffer buffer (buffer-string)))))
        (byte-recompile-directory elpaca-repo 0 'force)
        (require 'elpaca)
        (elpaca-generate-autoloads "elpaca" elpaca-repo)
        (kill-buffer buffer))
    ((error)
    (delete-directory elpaca-directory 'recursive)
    (with-current-buffer buffer
        (goto-char (point-max))
        (insert (format "\n%S" err))
        (display-buffer buffer)))))
(require 'elpaca-autoloads)
(add-hook 'after-init-hook #'elpaca-process-queues)
(elpaca (elpaca :host github :repo "progfolio/elpaca"))