(when (and (not (package-installed-p pkg)) (assoc pkg package-archive-contents)) install packages from the list that are not yet installed (when (not package-archive-contents) (package-refresh-contents)) refresh package list if it is not already available set up package syncing to allow for syncing between different machines set up package repositories from which additional packages can be installed to add packages to the syncing, add their repository names to the list `pfl-packages' The file packages.el contains the following: this library sets up package repositories and allows for syncing packages load the library that sets up the general behavior of Emacs load the library that sets up package repositories and syncing The file ~/.user_config/emacs/init.el contains: loads the different libraries to set up Emacs accordingly The file ~/.emacscontains the following: (add-to-list 'load-path '~/.user_config/emacs/') Please see the content of the relevant files below. Am I missing something crucial about the Emacs initialization process? Deleting the contents of ~/.emacs.d/ again solves that problem, but I would like to be able to add package names to the list, which Emacs then automatically installs on startup.

markdown-mode+) to the list pfl-packages in packages.el the new package is not installed when I restart Emacs. However, when I manually add a package to (e.g.

When I start Emacs afterwards, all the packages listed in packages.el are installed. This works without problems after I do a rm -rf ~/.emacs.d/*. Packages.el contains a list of packages Emacs should install on startup if they are not already installed. The file system layout looks like that: /home/axel/.user_config/emacs I restructured my Emacs init files to put them under version control.

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