this is really neat. what would be cool is to keep the package list up to date a...

this is really neat. what would be cool is to keep the package list up to date automatically (possibly by advising package installation - https://github.com/nicferrier/emacs-package-store/blob/maste...).

Then everytime you installed a package it would get written into the list and everytime you moved your init it would all happen automatically.

That would be cool. And not hard to do either. You could just keep a customization variable of the "base packages" or something and have it saved by the standard custom stuff.