> That means you can stick your setup file on a brand-new machine, start emacs, and all your packages auto-install themselves and start working. This is easy t

> That means you can stick your setup file on a brand-new machine, start emacs, and all your packages auto-install themselves and start working. This is easy to do with package.el: (defvar my-packages '(starter-kit scpaste paredit)) (dolist (p my-packages) (when (not (package-installed-p p)) (package-install p))) I think el-get made sense before community package sources like Marmalade and MELPA existed, but I don't see the point these days.