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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 17530-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17530: 24.4.50; `package-load-list': incorrect defcustom type
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 07:00:37 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8828b8fa-29e3-4888-928e-b25c92e4923d@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=y8PmVpapjAAZOOfRaSbSqRvTp2_2MdRFXhfGPUcdOkg@mail.gmail.com>

> This has subsequently been fixed:
> 
> commit 9be8a2fb41043b4d4734a67f155d6923df10671b
> Author: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date:   Thu Jan 28 08:58:43 2016 -0800
> 
>     * lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (package-load-list): Improve :type.
> 
> I'm therefore closing this bug report.

OK; good that the :type spec was fixed.

But at least in Emacs 26.3, the default is still
`(all)'.  For the record, this part of the problem
hasn't been addressed:

> If someone does not customize this or does
> `package-initialize' in their init file before
> loading `custom-file' then they might be in
> for an unwelcome surprise, depending on what
> packages they have locally.
>
> The default value would be better as nil, IMHO.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-15 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-19 16:26 bug#17530: 24.4.50; `package-load-list': incorrect defcustom type Drew Adams
2014-05-19 16:33 ` Drew Adams
2019-09-15  0:29 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-15 14:00   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2019-09-15 15:37     ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-15 21:27       ` Drew Adams
2019-09-15 21:39         ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-15 22:05           ` Drew Adams
2019-09-15 22:27             ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-15 23:38             ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-16  1:18               ` Drew Adams

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