Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory

[Stefan Monnier]

Philip Kaludercic [2021-08-08 15:40:57] wrote:
> I have been using something along these lines for a while now, and
> wanted to suggest adding this to Emacs/ELPA:
[...]
> The fundamental idea is to have an easy-to-use ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/
> directory where a user can clone any repository or create their own,
> without having to manually add these to load-path, generate autoloads or
> byte compile.

FWIW, I use `elpa-admin.el` for that.
The advantage being that the package.el is made aware of them.

Admittedly, `elpa-admin.el` doesn't provide that "out of the box", but
I'd welcome changes to improve this use case.  It go become an
alternative to `straight.el`.


        Stefan