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Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> writes:

> > * For ELPA package installed through package.el, should only the
> > installation root path be added to `load-path'?
> >   - Or recursively add nested directories will also be considered in the
> >   future?

I'm not involved much in package.el, but I guess given that such
additions to `load-path' are be possible manually, and that changing
this now could introduce potential breakage in existing packages, I would
not expect this to change.  And I don't remember discussions about this.

Michael.