From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: package.el should be preloaded
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:24:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwrp2gzve.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <is4oc6rbpq.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:57:37 -0400")
> This was briefly mentioned before
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-06/msg00634.html
> But it is loaded in every normal startup, whether or not I have any
> packages installed. Surely it is impossible to tell if I have any
> packages to load without loading package.el to search for them; so I
> don't see any reason not to preload it.
I agree we should preload it. But we should do it by splitting the part
that need to be preloaded into package-hooks.el.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-28 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-28 7:41 package.el should be preloaded Glenn Morris
2010-10-28 7:57 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-28 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-10-31 0:09 ` Chong Yidong
2010-11-01 1:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-01 15:01 ` Chong Yidong
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