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1) In the research I’ve been doing for updating my #emacs config, I found this Reddit post I forgot I saved a while back: www.reddit.com/r/emacs/s/H4... I tried this approach before, I may do it again! You can have your config files accurately reflect what is installed with ‘package.el’

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cyrialize

@cyrialize.dev

24 Nov 2024

2) This can be done by maintaining the list ‘package-selected-packages’ manually, calling ‘package-install-selected-packages’ to install from list, calling ‘package-autoremove’ to remove packages no longer in the list, and then only use ‘use-package’ for configuration. #emacs

cyrialize

@cyrialize.dev

24 Nov 2024

3) Given that I didn’t use most of the features ‘straight.el’ in my #emacs, this does look enticing. All that being said, github.com/progfolio/el... does look very, very enticing! The fun of emacs is spending hours deciding between packages

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Thunder

@thundertheidiot.bsky.social

24 Nov 2024

Not sure if you would care, but elpaca doesn't support lockfiles unlike straight. I used elpaca before jumping to the nix emacs-overlay, it worked fine for me at the time, but now I would feel a bit nervous updating my packages if I didn't have an easy way to roll back.

cyrialize

@cyrialize.dev

24 Nov 2024

Oh that's right, I totally forgot about that! I agree with your nervousness. I've always been frustrated with emacs dependency management (with rollbacks) either being using `straight` with a lock file, or committing all installed packages along with your config.