diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ecb5ef1..7bf3ed3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1072,17 +1072,20 @@ Add the following to your `~/.emacs.d/pre-early-init.el` file: ### How to use MELPA stable? -To add MELPA Stable for accessing stable package versions, you can adjust the `package-archive-priorities` variable in your `~/.emacs.d/post-early-init.el` file. +**IMPORTANT: Many of the MELPA stable packages are outdated.** + +Add the following configuration to `~/.emacs.d/post-early-init.el` to give MELPA Stable a higher priority than MELPA, ensuring that packages are fetched from MELPA Stable first: ```elisp +;; This change increases MELPA Stable priority to 70, above MELPA, +;; ensuring that MELPA is preferred for package installations +;; over MELPA Stable. (customize-set-variable 'package-archive-priorities '(("gnu" . 99) ("nongnu" . 80) ("melpa-stable" . 70) ("melpa" . 0))) ``` -However, the packages can sometimes be outdated. - ### How to load a local lisp file for machine-specific configurations? Add the following line to the end of your `post-init.el` file: