Re: What does use-package do?

[John Wiegley]

It allows the user to declaratively configure a required package. There are 
several “best practices” when writing startup config that will load quickly and 
efficiently, and use-package effectively abstracts these practices for the user.

I originally wrote it to eliminate a lot of boilerplate and duplication in my 
own high efficiency unit.el file (with hundreds of packages configured, but 
less than one second Emacs load time).

John

On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, at 6:47 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> Can someone send me a self-contained description of the job
> use-package does, from a user's perspective?
>
> I'm not asking about how it does that job, or how it works.
>
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