Re: What does use-package do?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Payas Relekar <relekarpayas@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 10:08:38 +0530
> 
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> use-package allows writing emacs configuration in a declarative manner,
> rather than imperative. It does few more things:
> 
> - Describe autoload dependencies by means of packages, commands, hooks
>   and keybindings, allowing faster startup without affecting UX
> - Allow configuring/executing stuff before/after package loading
> - Isolate configuration for individual packages in separate
>   s-expressions.
> 
> In general, making things declarative has had huge improvement in my
> config debug-ability, despite having 170+ packages currently loaded,
> without significantly increasing startup time.

I think reading this page will be much more effective as the answer to
Richard's questions:

  https://jwiegley.github.io/use-package/keywords/