From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Calling (package-initialize) sooner during initialization Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:52:41 +0200 Organization: Emacs Helm Message-ID: <87a8xtoq3a.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87383xk4ia.fsf@taylan.uni.cx> <87d22zi69k.fsf@taylan.uni.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1430128405 2577 80.91.229.3 (27 Apr 2015 09:53:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:53:25 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 27 11:53:17 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ymfj1-0005h8-IK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:53:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53911 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ymfj0-0005ke-Ti for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 05:53:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36726) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ymfio-0005kY-4J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 05:53:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ymfil-0004Lx-D4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 05:53:02 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47038) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ymfil-0004Lp-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 05:52:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ymfie-0005J5-3G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:52:52 +0200 Original-Received: from lbe83-2-78-243-104-167.fbx.proxad.net ([78.243.104.167]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:52:52 +0200 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by lbe83-2-78-243-104-167.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:52:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lbe83-2-78-243-104-167.fbx.proxad.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3OVT4d7aHmPlQFwPxWXsA2iROt8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:185926 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > But the current code in Emacs's "master" solves this problem by adding > "(package-initialize)" in the user's ~/.emacs. This is a very bad idea, I don't want my init file modified. Only the user should modify this file. Why don't you write to the custom-file (and make the use of custom-file the default instead of writing custom settings in .emacs by default) ? -- Thierry Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997