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@@ -24,9 +24,6 @@ sync with the site.
 
     The following arguments are accepted,
 
-    update
-    :   update the epkgs repository
-
     clear
     :   clean out the `packages/` directory
 
@@ -51,13 +48,43 @@ command-line to actually build the package(s).
  Alternatively you can
 load this file from within Emacs and issues commands from there.
 
+## Package List
 
+`pkglist` contains a list of all the currently known packages. Entries
+are lisp data of the form,
+
+    (name :url "<repo url>" :fetcher [git|svn|darcs] [:files ("<file1>", ...)])
+    
+The `:files` entry is optional but is required for either single-file
+packages or repositories which contain more than one package and
+individual packages should be extracted. For example, the
+[emacs-starter-kit](https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit)
+contains the *starter-kit* package along with extra packages in the
+`modules` directory; *starter-kit-bindings*, *starter-kit-lisp*, etc.
+The entry for *starter-kit* is,
+
+    (starter-kit
+     :url "git://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit.git"
+     :fetcher git
+     :files ("starter-kit-defuns.el"
+             "starter-kit-misc.el"
+             "starter-kit.el"))
+             
+Here the required elisp files are specified. All other information is
+generated by the `package-build.el` script. This include the
+*description*, *version*, and *requires*. In single-file packages the
+metadata is parsed from the file itself just as `package.el` does. For
+packages containing multiple files, metadata will be searched for in
+`name-pkg.el`, `name.el`, and `name-pkg.el.in`. If the information
+cannot be found the metadata is generated with *requires* set to
+`nil`.
 
 
 ## Adding Packages
 
-Feel free to open an Issue requesting packages and I'll see if they
-build nicely.
+Open an issue on Github and either paste in the relevant entry for
+`pkglist` or add a bunch and send a pull request.
+
 
 ## Developement
 
@@ -71,13 +98,7 @@ This can be configured using the `package-build-archive-dir` variable.
 Repositories are checked out to the `working/` directory by default.
 This can be configured using the `package-build-working-dir` variable.
 
-All metadata for building the packages is based off the git submodule
-for the [`epkgs`][epkgs] repository generated by the
-[emacsmirror][emacsmirror].  *However,* currently the site is not
-keeping up-to-date so I have [mirrored the site][mepkgs].
-
-[mepkgs]: https://github.com/milkypostman/epkgs
-[emacsmirror]: https://github.com/emacsmirror/
-[epkgs]: https://github.com/emacsmirror/epkgs
+
+