I often run into a problem when I install packages with Emacs: what can I do if one of the packages is broken in melpa and the other is broken in melpa-stable? For example if I use melpa-stable elscreen fails on startup:
run-hooks: Symbol's function definition is void: elscreen-start
but if I run on melpa elscreen works but cider-nrepl fails to start up. I checked their github profile and their build is currently failing. Is there a way to work around this?
You can use both melpa and melpa-stable, and pin certain packages to certain repositories by customizing package-pin-packages:
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("melpa-stable" . "http://stable.melpa.org/packages/") t)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/") t)
(setq package-pinned-packages
'((imenu-anywhere . "melpa-stable")
(spaceline . "melpa-stable")
(clj-refactor . "melpa-stable")
(cider . "melpa-stable")
(clojure-mode . "melpa-stable")
(linum-relative . "melpa-stable")
(aggressive-indent . "melpa-stable")
(evil-leader . "melpa-stable")
(evil-visualstart . "melpa-stable")
(evil-jumper . "melpa-stable")
(evil-snipe . "melpa-stable")
(evil . "melpa-stable")
(evil-commentary . "melpa-stable")))