I like my emacs configuration to be managable in git installing everything on first start, as I migrated away from my home grown install and package manage to use-package I wanted to keep this nicety, so I need to make sure use-package gets installed if it isn’t already present.
;; setup use-package, if we don't have it, install it (require 'use-package nil t) (unless (featurep 'use-package) (package-refresh-contents) (package-install 'use-package) (require 'use-package))
Code from the sideline 