Re: package-quickstart and info:

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Given that this is all happening from early-init.el, I suspect info
> always gets loaded. 

Hmm... I don't understand how that relates to what I said,


        Stefan


>>> While debugging something else with force-load-messages set to t, I
>>> noticed that loading package-quickstart.el loads info -- is there a
>>> good reason for this?
>>
>> IIRC when a package includes an Info manual, we load `info` before
>> modifying the `Info-directory-list`.  This could be improved to avoid
>> loading `info`.
>>
>> The place where this happens in the non-quickstart case is
>> `package-activate-1` and in `package-quickstart-refresh` you can see
>> similar code being added to the quickstart file.
>>
>> IIRC the problem is that depending on whether 
>> `info-initialize` has already been called or not, we need to add the
>> directory either to `Info-directory-list` or to
>> `Info-default-directory-list`.
>>
>> Patches welcome (and if you need more info about the precise
>> relationship between those two Info*directory-list vars, I think Eli is
>> the one who knows all about it).
>>
>>
>>         Stefan
>>