El-get

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el-get
Description Package Manager
Author name of author
Maintainer Dimitri Fontaine
Source https://github.com/dimitri/el-get
Part of Emacs no

el-get is Emacs popular package manager written by Dimitri Fontaine. El-get support many different back ends. The differs with other package managers by not having a central repository for the archival of packages. Instead it uses recipe files which are simply contains pointers to the sources and installation methods.