diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 528622b1d..367109295 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -37,3 +37,6 @@
 [submodule "snippets"]
 	path = snippets
 	url = http://github.com/syl20bnr/yasnippet-snippets
+[submodule "extensions/use-package"]
+	path = extensions/use-package
+	url = http://github.com/jwiegley/use-package
diff --git a/extensions/use-package b/extensions/use-package
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..84998a522
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extensions/use-package
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 84998a522e88d7742927e34cdc92c6e8aa7284d8
diff --git a/init-extension/init-use-package.el b/init-extension/init-use-package.el
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ea9dbdd29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/init-extension/init-use-package.el
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+(require 'use-package)
diff --git a/pre-extensions.el b/pre-extensions.el
index 616cb98e0..63dcd4f15 100644
--- a/pre-extensions.el
+++ b/pre-extensions.el
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 (defvar syl:pre-extensions
   '(
+    use-package
     revive
     window-numbering
     ))