At some point I copy/pasted it from the custom file. ( setq custom-file (md/dotfiles-get-path 'emacs.d.symlink/custom.el ')) This is a workaround suggested in many different To get around this we set load-prefer-newer to Theĭefault is to use the first file found. Setting load-prefer-newer to t means emacs will load the most recent. if there are multiple versions of a file (eg.el. If there are multiple versions of a file, prefer the newer one. The default only includes, but a lot of my installed packages come from MELPA. The archives that package-list-packages and package-install will use.