Re: Adding use-package to core

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> "PR" == Payas Relekar <relekarpayas@gmail.com> writes:

PR> 4. If you need someone to complain about use-package not being in core,
PR> you can count this mail as first. When I started out with Emacs in 2020,
PR> use-package was already recommended way in half the packages I found, and
PR> installing it required adding MELPA. Depending on where you stand with
PR> technical and ethical grounds, this is already not ideal. Less elisp
PR> needed to be understood by newbies (even if one-line MELPA addition) the
PR> better.

For me, this is also the biggest argument in favor of inclusion in core: If
use-package is something you need to install (even through ELPA) before you
can bootstrap your environment, it introduces a manual step that would just be
nice for users if we could remove. But that's not an unsurmountable obstacle.

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