I'd say it's not warranted and it's not needed. After meddling about for a bit, I did a reset and I did it using "emacs starter kit" by technomancy (of leiningen fame):
On top of that, I've just added whatever tweaks and hacks necessary to get screen & emacs behaving properly in a FreeBSD shell, since currently my best and most powerful internet-facing host is a FreeBSD machine.
So as you can see, most of it is repo'd already :)
https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit
On top of this I've added some tweaked versions of yank-indent and indent.el from the emacs-wiki:
http://emacswiki.org/emacs/AutoIndentation
On top of that, I've just added whatever tweaks and hacks necessary to get screen & emacs behaving properly in a FreeBSD shell, since currently my best and most powerful internet-facing host is a FreeBSD machine.
So as you can see, most of it is repo'd already :)