From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions? Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 09:34:39 -0500 Message-ID: References: <76b1fb81-54c0-c213-a542-dc7b9838c473@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1516977217 28799 195.159.176.226 (26 Jan 2018 14:33:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:33:37 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 26 15:33:33 2018 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 1ef54C-0006LM-Cc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:33:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59062 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ef56D-00036M-2T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2018 09:35:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34369) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ef55U-00035u-1M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2018 09:34:41 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:44868) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ef55U-0004TV-1I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2018 09:34:40 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ef55T-0004Fd-FY; Fri, 26 Jan 2018 09:34:39 -0500 In-reply-to: <76b1fb81-54c0-c213-a542-dc7b9838c473@gmail.com> (message from =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel on Thu, 25 Jan 2018 11:22:25 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:222250 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Discussion of a patch cited this: > > Emacs also automatically loads all packages installed in > > previous Emacs sessions If that means what I think it means, I think it is bad design for this feature. Suppose the user loads a package to try it out. Will that cause it to be loaded again in every session? It appears that way. I think that asking for a package to be loaded in every session should be distinguished from loading it for the current session. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.