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On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Edward Welbourne wrote:

> Having customize add everything it does to a single file, maintained
> entirely via the customize UI, loaded at a well-considered moment in
> one's start-up sequence, will provide for tidier source-management,
> easier maintenance, better control over the start-up process, less
> opportunity for any bugs in customize to manifest themselves and
> probably less bugs in initialisation.

I suspect that the problem of where exactly in the startup sequence to 
load that separate file, i.e. the problem of choosing that 
``well-considered moment'' is no less complicated than the ones you 
find in the current operation of the code.