Re: document package.el

[Christoph]

On 8/6/2010 4:42 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:

> I'd appreciate comments on this patch.
>
> I finally found a little time to write some documentation for
> package.el.

Hi Tom,

I just tried package.el for the first time and I like it a lot! This 
could save me a lot of time googling around trying to find the latest 
versions.

I have a couple of thoughts:
I am wondering, is there a way to give package.el a list of packages to 
go download from ELPA and install? I would also want it to use this list 
to check for new versions of all packages in the list. Either on startup 
or on command (M-x package-upgrade). Also, on a new installation of 
Emacs I would just tell it "Go get the packages in the list" and it 
would recreate my package configuration on that machine. All I need in 
version control is the list as part of my init.el, instead of putting 
the entire elpa/ directory under version control and deploying it to the 
new machine.

Great work!

Christoph