Re: pkg-autoloads.el vs. pkg-loaddefs.el

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>   (when (and (featurep autoload-feature)
>>              (require-with-check autoload-feature nil 'reload))
>>     ;; If pkg-autoload.el is already loaded from a different path,
>>     ;; reload the package.
>>     (warn ...)
>>     (setq reload t)))
> ...
> Hmm... I wonder when that `featurep` test would trigger, tho.
>
> E.g. for Org usually the "old already loaded Org" is the one from Emacs
> which doesn't come with an `org-autoloads.el`.

Right.
Maybe org-loaddefs.el should (provide 'org-autoloads)? And same for
other built-in packages. Or there might be a token pkg-autoloads.el in
the tree for built-in packages.

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