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		pandakar on May 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let's just use Emacs And Dave Abrahams is now actively developing el-get, which I prefer to ELPA. http://github.com/dimitri/el-get

vdm on May 28, 2011 [–]

Ditto. With el-get, I can link into the source git repository, and not wait for manual submissions to the ELPA repository, which always lag the actual release.

ELPA/package.el is broken as far as I'm concerned. el-get is a breath of fresh air by comparison.

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