In GNU Emacs 29.0.90 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.37, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2023-04-18 built on ring The "Getting Started" topic of the use-package info contains the following unclear language in paragraph 2: " (require 'use-package) The above makes the 'use-macro' for in the rest of your init file. In this manual, we call each call to 'use-macro' a "declaration", to highlight the declarative nature of its semantic."