diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 3941914..e46293e 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "borg"]
 	path = lib/borg
 	url = git@gitlab.com:tarsius/borg.git
+[submodule "use-package"]
+	path = lib/use-package
+	url = git@github.com:jwiegley/use-package.git
diff --git a/init.el b/init.el
index 9230558..ae44bc2 100644
--- a/init.el
+++ b/init.el
@@ -22,7 +22,12 @@
   (require  'borg)
   (borg-initialize))
 
-(progn ;    `custom'
+(progn ;    `use-package'
+  (require  'use-package)
+  (setq use-package-verbose t))
+
+(use-package custom
+  :config
   (setq custom-file (expand-file-name "custom.el" user-emacs-directory))
   (when (file-exists-p custom-file)
     (load custom-file)))
diff --git a/lib/use-package b/lib/use-package
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..22c63c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/use-package
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 22c63c8f98fc318c357b51a658cee62d64601e16