Re: package.el, auto-installation, and auto-removal

[Nic Ferrier]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> `package.el' is great to install packages more easily, but it falls short
> when you want to keep the same set of installed packages on various
> machines, or when it's time to remove package you don't need because it
> doesn't distinguish between the packages you want and those required
> by those packages.
>
> So I'm looking for some kind soul who could extend package.el so as to
> keep track of the packages that the user installed explicitly.
> This should likely be kept in a custom variable.
>
> Then we could add a command to install all the packages listed in
> that variable.  And we could also write a function that deletes all
> "orphan" packages.

Elpakit pretty much does this already.


Nic