A community configuration like Spacemacs will continually update to provide you with a configuration that is up to date and doesn't break. As far as I understa

A community configuration like Spacemacs will continually update to provide you with a configuration that is up to date and doesn't break. As far as I understand, it currently does not do that, since elpa/melpa/... packages are updated out of sync with Spacemacs and the last Spacemacs release is over 2 months old. See: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/2057#issuecomment-251041821 https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/2057#issuecomme... But, there is hope, the release notes for 0.200 say: For 0.201 we plan to introduce stable snapshots of elpa repositories, a new installation of Spacemacs will always install packages from this stable source.