{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/1247","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/1247/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/1247/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/1247/events","html_url":"https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/1247","id":69365886,"number":1247,"title":"Create private layers from MELPA ","user":{"login":"mahaha","id":958607,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/958607?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mahaha","html_url":"https://github.com/mahaha","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mahaha/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mahaha/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mahaha/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mahaha/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mahaha/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mahaha/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mahaha/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mahaha/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mahaha/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/labels/question","name":"question","color":"cc317c"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-04-19T00:53:18Z","updated_at":"2015-04-19T08:52:50Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I'd love to be able to install packages from MELPA to get some more useful functionatlity out of emacs, namely things such as  [ebib](http://melpa.org/#/ebib), yet I just do not understand the documentation explaining how to add your own private layer, since just installing from MELPA leads to the deletion of orphaned packages.\r\n\r\nWould anyone be willing to give a more or less detailed walk through of how to go about this in general? Thanks so much!"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/comments/94252438","html_url":"https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/1247#issuecomment-94252438","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/1247","id":94252438,"user":{"login":"person808","id":6396431,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6396431?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/person808","html_url":"https://github.com/person808","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/person808/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/person808/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/person808/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/person808/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/person808/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/person808/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/person808/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/person808/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/person808/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-04-19T08:52:50Z","updated_at":"2015-04-19T08:52:50Z","body":"The package list is only packages to install from melpa. So `ebib-packages` would be \r\n```elisp\r\n(defvar ebib-packages '(ebib))\r\n```\r\n\r\n You only need one init function (`ebib/init-ebib`) because there is only one package to install."}}