Package installation: 'packages.el' vs 'ensure' keyword from `use-package'

[srustamo]

You seem to use both installation methods in the title.

It also looks like you use (setq use-package-always-ensure t) somewhere (in customize-group, perhaps?), which is not visible in this repo.

How do you install the packages in use-package, which are not in 'packages.el'?

[abo-abo]

Grepping for :ensure I only see ora-ido.el, which I no longer use. So it's mainly packages.el. Sometimes I install things with package-install and promote them later to package.el.

[srustamo]

Thank you.