Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize)

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Nikolay Kudryavtsev <nikolay.kudryavtsev@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 18:57:30 +0300
> 
> So I propose, we don't do anything until user either:
> 
> 1. Requires something that's not available.
> 
> 2. Calls a function that's not available.
> 
> In either of those cases we check whether (package-initialize) was already called. And, if not, we give user an
> interactive window along the lines of:
> 
>  "You tried to call X which is not available and Emacs package manager was not initialized. Press: 
> 
>  i to initialize and try again
> 
>  w to initialize, try again and don't ask again
> 
>  x to dismiss
> 
>  K to dissmiss and never ask again."
> 
> w writes (package-initialize) to init)

IME, annoying users in this way is not welcome in this community.
Doing this once is borderline, doing this multiple times in the same
session is going to annoy too much, I think.

And anyway, I don't see how this solves the problem of packages being
loaded when the user said not to by customizing package-load-list.
Your proposal in effect will load packages after Emacs reads ~/.emacs,
which is what we do now, so how is it different?