Re: Make a "general" Emacs configuration

[pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)]

Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:

> I feel that I have to change something in my emacs configuration, what I
> would like to have is something similar to the linux kernel, where you
> can disable enable things and they keep track of the dependencies.
>
> Using many autoloads and hooks it should not be a problem of course but
> I would like to make more modular.
>
> But the first thing to do is to move out everything I don't develop.
> For example all the packages that I pull from git, should not be in my
> own git repository, but if I move them out then I need to download them
> every time, and the version could be different.
>
> I think that git submodule could be the way to go, BUT I would like to
> keep the same version also, so I upgrade only once and I keep
> consistency everywhere.
>
> Reading now again the doc looks like it could work exactly like that
> anyway, but I still have some troubles understanding the submodules...
>
> Any example or idea is welcome...

You could just rely on the work done by your linux distribution.  For
example, gentoo automatically updates the site-start.el file (actually
site-gentoo.el, loaded from site-start.el), when you install, update
or remove packages from the app-emacs category.

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