>Just install evil mode and a few contrib packages.. that's spacemacs lite.
Yes. However one of the most attractive features of spacemacs is... that somebody has selected the packages and installed them for you! You don't have to do anything!
.. and you're stuck forever in the spacemacs layers abstraction, per my comment above. (Try installing a package from Melpa)
Re:Spacemacs 0.105.0 released
by pixel_fcker on Monday January 04, 2016 @11:09PM
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It takes literally 5 minutes to add a layer that will install whatever package you want.
Re:Spacemacs 0.105.0 released
by declanqian on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @02:09PM
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Here, https://github.com/coldnew/coldnew-spacemacs
He use spacemacs as module inside .emacs.d. May helps.
Just install evil mode and a few contrib packages.. that's spacemacs lite.