Re: using use-package

[Rusi]

On Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 4:54:39 AM UTC+5:30, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Putting in the core is rather some distance from promoting as the "one
> > true way"
> 
> FWIW, lots of use-package is designed to work around flaws in packages.
> 
> E.g. the :load-path thingy should never be necessary since the package's
> own autoloads should already take care of that.
> 
> Or to take another example from https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package:
> 
>    (use-package foo
>      :init
>      (setq foo-variable t)
>      :config
>      (foo-mode 1))
> 
> For any properly written foo-mode, the above can be replaced with
> 
>      (setq foo-variable t)
>      (foo-mode 1)
> 
> and it should work just as well.

Are you serious Stefan?

Here's a 3-line init:

---------------------
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/";))
(package-initialize)
---------------------

Start emacs -Q with that and I get:
Symbol's value as variable is void: package-archives

Precede by a (require 'package) and error vanishes