“A use-package declaration for simplifying your .emacs”
The use-package macro allows you to isolate package configuration in your
.emacs file in a way that is both performance-oriented and, well, tidy. I
created it because I have over 80 packages that I use in Emacs, and things were
getting difficult to manage. Yet with this utility my total load time is around
2 seconds, with no loss of functionality!
NOTE: use-package is not a package manager! Although use-package does
have the useful capability to interface with package managers (see below), its
primary purpose is for the configuration and loading of packages.