Re: An alternative to a monolithic ~/.emacs init file

[Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>]

>>>>> ">" == rustom  <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

>> This way the .emacs can be nothing more than the two lines
>> (load-loaddefs-from-directory "~/elisp/lib")
>> (load-customizations-from-directory "~/elisp/lib")
>> And there are no superfluous file traversals at emacs startup time

>> Knowing emacs and its community I guess this functionality is already
>> available!

>> Question is what is it called :-)

ELPA works this way, more or less.  It isn't as simple as "drop in
some elisp and work", since it provides some other features that
require a bit more metadata.  But, the basic idea is the same: extract
autoloads and byte-compile at package install time; and read the
minimal number of files and only evaluate autoloads at package
evaluation time.

For more info:

    http://tromey.com/elpa/

There are some other, more minimal, elisp install packages.  They are
listed on the wiki.

Tom