From d87a9a80738b7906e5f9b2a3e5623a07527059cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bozhidar Batsov Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 09:52:45 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] [Docs] Extend a bit the "Pinning packages" section --- doc/installation.md | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/installation.md b/doc/installation.md index ed4a43e..bfffb2d 100644 --- a/doc/installation.md +++ b/doc/installation.md @@ -74,9 +74,10 @@ Simply run M-x prelude-update from Emacs itself and restart Emacs aft ## Pinning packages -By default, Prelude will install packages from the melpa and gnu package -repositories. Occasionally package integration can break when upgrading packages. -This can be avoided by pinning packages to stable versions in other repositories. +By default, Prelude will install packages from the MELPA and GNU ELPA package +repositories. Occasionally package integration can break when upgrading packages, +as the packages in the MELPA repository are all snapshot builds. +This can be avoided by pinning packages to stable versions in other repositories (e.g. MELPA Stable). To do so, copy `prelude-pinned-packages.el` from the sample directory to Prelude's root directory and adjust the [variables](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Package-Installation.html) inside accordingly.