On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 1:35 PM, James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote:
That is what broke things.  (As I've complained before.)

​If a package unintentionally shadows/overrides a standard/core Emacs library, then it is the package that is broken and needs to be fixed.  If instead the behavior is intentional then that is what the current load-path order is designed to allow.

Bob