Maybe I'm messing something up, but I have not been able to get the packager to work with es6 modules, or anything requiring the Babel runtime. From digging around in the packager a little more, I believe this has to do with the fact that it runs the transform on each file individually.
I am able to this stuff working by running Babel on my files myself before they reach the packager, but it seems messy to preprocess it twice.