You know, I haven't thought much about this. I use a lot of third-party packages and have a lot of my own custom code, but things almost never interfere. In the

You know, I haven't thought much about this. I use a lot of third-party packages and have a lot of my own custom code, but things almost never interfere. In the few cases that crop up (for example, awkward interactions between org-mode's completion and the completion plugin system I use), it was so easy to add some code to my .emacs file to fix that problem that I had no real problems with it.