Just from looking at the heading: There is GNU Guix, which also already packages many Emacs packages and many of the contributors / authors of GNU Guix use Emac

Just from looking at the heading: There is GNU Guix, which also already packages many Emacs packages and many of the contributors / authors of GNU Guix use Emacs to work on it themselves. I have a mostly Guix installed Emacs setup, only including my own init.el and some packages installed through `M-x list-pack RET`, which are not on Guix already. It works quite well and is easy to update.