From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Weiner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixing package-initialize, adding early init file Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:31:01 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rswgnu@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="001a113e2052bf531a055b365a46" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1507664863 10732 195.159.176.226 (10 Oct 2017 19:47:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 19:47:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Radon Rosborough Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 10 21:47:40 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e20V6-00023f-Mx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 21:47:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36874 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e20VE-0005PR-6P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:47:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59399) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e20Fe-0001k7-9c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:31:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e20FZ-0005Zy-D7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:31:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60957) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e20FZ-0005Zr-9M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:31:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qt0-f172.google.com ([209.85.216.172]:49959) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1e20FY-0006HG-Qy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:31:32 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-qt0-f172.google.com with SMTP id k31so19280591qta.6 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:31:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: AMCzsaUCLBNJkJcaRnJ2vIO7XIoschXpfF4vV/NwBXDlqAGUwF1UYMvQ lS8sZJNKGoyzsM5ReMfqq95DQJEsGSSQ3coBNSs= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QAINaUl4n7eY9nfT96ZWULSywQSkd2VYCioFYWyqZQ2+P6O4kp7dSkoTAa0e2t4qzEa8AKG6MY6bjOFL6Wp2to= X-Received: by 10.200.56.52 with SMTP id q49mr10754484qtb.309.1507663892401; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:31:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.237.34.225 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:31:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219357 Archived-At: --001a113e2052bf531a055b365a46 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Radon Rosborough wrote: > > And, as Eli already pointed out, for most Emacs users there *is* only > a single init file. It's only if you want to do advanced programming > that you need to use the second one, which need not exist at all. > =E2=80=8BThat sounds fine. When I mentioned 'package-initialize', I meant = that users of packages who would call that in their init files should not need to have a second init file just to use packages and have them load properly= . Bob --001a113e2052bf531a055b365a46 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Tue, Oct 10, 2= 017 at 3:03 PM, Radon Rosborough <radon.neon@gmail.com> wrote:

And, as Eli already pointed out, for most Emacs users there *is* only
a single init file. It's only if you want to do advanced programming that you need to use the second one, which need not exist at all.

=E2=80=8BThat sounds fine.=C2=A0 When I mentioned 'pa= ckage-initialize', I meant that users of packages who would call that i= n their init files should not need to have a second init file just to use p= ackages and have them load properly.

Bob

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