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#+title:  melpa
#+filetags: :EMACS:

MELPA (Milkypostman's Emacs Lisp Package Archive) is a package manager of [[id:5f1df0e1-384f-4685-ae1e-fec2431b04e5][emacs]], the [[id:4e30f168-3601-4b99-9daa-790161c03901][elpa]] extension to some (many) more packages.


* Up-to-date packages built on our [[id:f2b1d5af-1a7d-47a5-95c8-4a85d558419e][servers]] from upstream source
* Installable in any Emacs with 'package.el'
no local version-control tools needed
* Curated 
no obsolete, renamed, forked or randomly hacked packages
* Comprehensive
more packages than any other archive
* Automatic updates
new commits result in new packages
* Extensible
contribute new recipes, and we'll build the packages