From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stephan Brauer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Define list of packages in ~/.emacs.d/init.el Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:27:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20171130082749.ql5zutbaf7nugkzl@atuin.ls42.de> References: <20171128144816.nikq2gj2dljgdnpc@atuin.ls42.de> <87bmjkk05p.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1512030521 4360 195.159.176.226 (30 Nov 2017 08:28:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:28:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Alexis Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 30 09:28:36 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eKKCy-0000eQ-9y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:28:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46789 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKKD2-00054I-87 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2017 03:28:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39214) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKKCV-00052y-6w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2017 03:28:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKKCR-0001JP-Rz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2017 03:28:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.mailbox.org ([80.241.60.215]:54596) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eKKCR-0001Gp-Ko for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2017 03:28:03 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp2.mailbox.org (smtp2.mailbox.org [80.241.60.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.mailbox.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D6DDC4D7F8; Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:27:59 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at heinlein-support.de Original-Received: from smtp2.mailbox.org ([80.241.60.241]) by spamfilter03.heinlein-hosting.de (spamfilter03.heinlein-hosting.de [80.241.56.117]) (amavisd-new, port 10030) with ESMTP id ixSqDkL-gcGl; Thu, 30 Nov 2017 09:27:51 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87bmjkk05p.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 80.241.60.215 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115147 Archived-At: Hi Alexis, yes, that's what I'm using now, someone else recommended it to me. It's exactly what I want. Thank you. Stephan On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 12:47:30PM +1100, Alexis wrote: > > Stephan Brauer writes: > > > I've been searching for a way to define a list of packages that I > > wan't to have installed and then have them installed or updated > > whenever emacs is started. I think this way I can easily put my > > init.el into version control and on every system I use for emacs just > > deploy that file and emacs does the rest. > > > > Does someone here know about a way to do that? > > i don't use it myself, but i know many people use John Wiegley's > `use-package`: > > https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package > > > Alexis.