Steve Purcell 6f1c711a56 Note about how site-lisp is used for package.el in Emacs 23 10 years ago
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README 6f1c711a56 Note about how site-lisp is used for package.el in Emacs 23 10 years ago

README

This is a place for 3rd party code which isn't available in MELPA or
other package repositories. This directory and its immediate subdirectories
will be added to load-path at start-up time.

Notably, in Emacs 23.x, a backported package.el is automatically
downloaded and installed here.