Re: Waiting for refresh to finish...

[Joseph Vidal-Rosset <joseph.vidal.rosset@gmail.com>]

Thanks  for your  help,  Tomas,  here is  the  beginning  of my  init.el
(suggestions to improve it are of course welcome):

(defvar last-file-name-handler-alist file-name-handler-alist)
(setq gc-cons-threshold  602653184
      gc-cons-percentage 0.6
      file-name-handler-alist nil)

;;; General configuration section

;; Dumped Emacs
;; (when (boundp 'galactic-emacs-pdumper-dumped)
;;  ;; Restore `load-path'
;;  (setq load-path galactic-emacs-pdumper-load-path)
  ;; When Emacs starts from dump file, some default modes are not
  ;; enabled
;;  (global-font-lock-mode)
;;  (transient-mark-mode))

(when (> emacs-major-version 23)
       (require 'package)
      (package-initialize)
      (add-to-list 'package-archives
                    '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/")
                     'APPEND))

;; Configure Emacs package manager. Not required anymore on Emacs > 27
(if (version< emacs-version "27")
					(package-initialize)  )
(require 'package)
(setq package-archives
      '(("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")
        ("melpa-stable" . "https://stable.melpa.org/packages/")
        ("org" . "https://orgmode.org/elpa/")
       ; ("gnu" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
	))

;; Some combination of GNU TLS and Emacs fail to retrieve archive
;; contents over https.
;; https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/cdei4p/failed_to_download_gnu_archive_bad_request/etw48ux
;; https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=34341
(if (and (version< emacs-version "26.3") (>= libgnutls-version 30600))
    (setq gnutls-algorithm-priority "NORMAL:-VERS-TLS1.3"))

;; Enable packages signature verification only if GPG is installed
(setq package-check-signature (when (executable-find "gpg") 'allow-unsigned))

;; Change the below priorities if you prefer melpa-stable packages.
;; Higher is better.
(setq package-archive-priorities
      '(
	("melpa" .  4)
        ("melpa-stable" . 3)
        ("org" . 2)
        ("gnu" . 1)
	)
       )

;; Bootstrap `use-package'
(unless (package-installed-p 'use-package)
  (package-refresh-contents)
  (package-install 'use-package))
(eval-when-compile
  (require 'use-package))
(use-package use-package-ensure-system-package
  :ensure t)
(setq package-enable-at-startup nil)


;; addendum from scimax

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/") t)
(package-initialize)



(when (not package-archive-contents)
  (package-refresh-contents))
-- 
Joseph