Note about how site-lisp is used for package.el in Emacs 23

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 This is a place for 3rd party code which isn't available in MELPA or
 other package repositories. This directory and its immediate subdirectories
-will be added to load-path at start-up time.
+will be added to load-path at start-up time.
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+Notably, in Emacs 23.x, a backported package.el is automatically
+downloaded and installed here.