There are several methods to install and manage packages for Emacs:
- package.el
- el-get
- use-package
What is the easiest way to install package? It seems package.el ships with the default Emacs installation.
I tried use-package, each time I start Emacs, it will take a few second to contact hosts like melpa...
straight.el
, since I personally prefer it (obviously) topackage.el
. You can read the extremely verbose documentation to learn about the differences. I won't put this as an answer, since it doesn't answer your question: the standard package manager ispackage.el
, whereasstraight.el
is almost certainly never going to be shipped with Emacs. Re: @Ehvince I've added functionality touse-package
to allow using it with other package managers, includingstraight.el
.