Re: Adding Package Repositories in Gnu Emacs 24.4

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On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 8:21:25 AM UTC-7, Bourgoin, Mario wrote:
> How can the custom system be reliably used to add package repositories to Gnu Emacs 24.4 (and later)?  Since in 24.4, "package-archives" may be customized, that seems the way to go.
> 
> Apparently, that approach
> ... only works if the custom system controls package initialisation, which isn't the case in many of the popular configuration bundles.
> Steve Purcell
>                 https://github.com/milkypostman/melpa/issues/2674
> Steve wrote that people add the code:
> (require 'package)
> ...
> (add-to-list 'package-archives '(...))
> (package-initialize)
> ...
> to the Emacs initialization file so they can depend on "packages" being installed and initialized when later in the initialization file, they have
> (require 'some-package)
> (some-package-whatever-mode t)
> My problem with this was that running "package-initialize" in my Emacs initialization file resulted in a recently-installed version of AUCTeX (11.88.4) being shadowed by an older built-in version of AUCTeX on load-path. (I was using Vincent Goulet's installer emacs-24.4-modified-1.exe from
> http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/emacs/windows
> and that problem may be due to AUCTeX initialization.)
> 
> So is there one best approach to use, or am I at the mercy of the Emacs configuration bundle?
> 
> Mario Bourgoin
> Senior Data Scientist - Hopkinton
> EMC CTD Symmetrix uCode
> (508) 249-1297 Direct

I think your spacing is a little off in this stanza with dotted-pairs

If so, just put something like this in an init file,
then add repositories as dotted pair list items as you
go along:

    (setq package-archives
          '(( "elpa" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
            ("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") )) 

It should be

If so, just put something like this in an init file,
then add repositories as dotted pair list items as you
go along:

    (setq package-archives
          '(( "elpa" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
            ("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/")) )

if at all.

Bolega