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Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 4449301: * etc/NEWS: Improve documentation
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> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:07:07 +0100
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> OK, thanks for explaining that.  I have attached a patch which changes
> package-enable-at-startup into a defvar for now.

I'm not sure I understand how grave are the problems with this
defcustom, but if they are, I'd prefer to add a :set function rather
than demoting a user option to a defvar.