Re: using use-package

[Stefan Monnier]

> Putting in the core is rather some distance from promoting as the "one
> true way"

FWIW, lots of use-package is designed to work around flaws in packages.

E.g. the :load-path thingy should never be necessary since the package's
own autoloads should already take care of that.

Or to take another example from https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package:

   (use-package foo
     :init
     (setq foo-variable t)
     :config
     (foo-mode 1))

For any properly written foo-mode, the above can be replaced with

     (setq foo-variable t)
     (foo-mode 1)

and it should work just as well.


IOW, in many cases, it would be better for people to report the problem
as a bug rather than to reach for use-package.


        Stefan