el-get is pretty cool but I think package has the following advantages over el-get: 1) it's standard emacs 2) although it doesn't have yet it will be able to

el-get is pretty cool but I think package has the following advantages over el-get: 1) it's standard emacs 2) although it doesn't have yet it will be able to support digital signatures for packages (as well as other security mechanisms) As a developer of Emacs packages (it seems to be the only code I've written this year, outside of work) I am sticking with package. I don't know how much the tips here might be relevant to el-get, I think not very.