load [[https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package/][use-package]] even faster
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(eval-and-compile
+ ;; add /etc/ssl/ca-global/ca-certificates.crt so that we can
+ ;; download packages when we're on Debian hosts which chop down the
+ ;; list of available certificates
+ (add-to-list 'gnutls-trustfiles "/etc/ssl/ca-global/ca-certificates.crt")
(setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
(setq package--init-file-ensured t)
(setq package-user-dir "~/var/emacs/elpa")