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<h1>GNU Emacs Lisp Package Archive</h1>
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-This is the default package repository for
+This is the default package repository for
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">GNU Emacs</a>.
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<p>
-To use it, type <kbd>M-x list-packages</kbd> in Emacs.
-(This requires Emacs version 24.1 or higher.)
+To use it, type <tt>M-x list-packages</tt> in Emacs.
+(This requires Emacs version 24.1 or higher.) <br/>
+Since you'll probably want to use your installed packages, it's also
+<a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Package-Installation.html#Package-Installation">recommended</a>
+that you add <code>(package-initialize)</code> somewhere
+in your <code>~/.emacs</code> file.
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+<p>Or you can just browse the <a href="packages/">list of packages</a>.</p>
+
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-You can grab the <a href="emacs-packages-latest.tgz">latest package
-snapshot</a> or look at the <a href="/packages">package list</a>
-directly.
+Packages are managed through the
+<a href="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git">GNU ELPA repository</a>
+(see the <a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs">GNU Emacs project page</a>
+for clone instructions). <br>
+To contribute new packages refer to the
+<a href="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/plain/README">README</a>.
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