# jwiegley/use-package

A use-package declaration for simplifying your .emacs

Repository: https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/use-package
Homepage: https://jwiegley.github.io/use-package
Language: Emacs Lisp
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: emacs-lisp, deferred-loading, emacs, keymap, autoload, handler, melpa, keyword
Archived: true
Last push: 2025-08-23T17:49:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 38, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5190, "days_push": 375, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4462, forks 260 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:50.754256+00:00)

## What it is
A Emacs Lisp macro for declaring and organizing package configuration in your .emacs init file in a tidy, performance-oriented way. It supports deferred/lazy loading, keybindings, hooks, and integration with package managers; it is now part of Emacs core and the GitHub repo is archived.

## Use cases
- organize my emacs init file
- speed up emacs startup time
- lazy load emacs packages
- set keybindings for emacs packages declaratively
- manage configuration for 80+ emacs packages
- defer loading packages until needed in emacs

## When to choose
- You use Emacs and want clean, declarative package configuration with fast startup
- You want lazy/deferred loading and autoload-based keybinding setup for Emacs packages
- You are on a modern Emacs where use-package is built in

## When to avoid
- You need a package manager - use-package explicitly is not one
- You are configuring editors other than Emacs
- You expect active development on this GitHub repo - it is archived; development happens in Emacs core

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: configuration-management, developer-tools, plugin-system
- domain: text-editors, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: emacs-lisp, emacs-packages, lazy-loading, autoload, dotfiles, macro, melpa, emacs

## Member repositories
- jwiegley/use-package (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:50.754256+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:20:41.310404+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:50.754256+00:00, sha 0f6877782af1)
  - homepage: https://jwiegley.github.io/use-package (fetched 2026-08-29T09:07:20.681401+00:00, sha 850c34d3415c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.