There are multiple versions of Emacs Starter Kit. The two main versions that I currently see are one maintained by Eric Schulte (http://eschulte.me/emacs24-starter-kit/) and the other maintained by Phil Hagelberg (https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit/).
The important difference between the two is that Eric Schulte's version is a collection of org-mode files from where the .el files are generated. The startup options are maintained as org documents. Package.el, and ELPA, are a part of the starter kit in this case. The starter kit installs the packages. In Hagelberg's version, this is inverted. Starter kit is installed by the package manager that is now a part of Emacs (version 24). The package manager directly installs a bunch of .el files and there are no org files to see. Which is the recommended way to go? What is the experience of people on this list? (This mail perhaps belongs to the emacs mailing list, but since at least one of these versions is based on using org-mode to manage emacs, people on this mailing list will perhaps have some interest in the issue.). Vikas
