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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>, 17530@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17530: 24.4.50; `package-load-list': incorrect defcustom type
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 18:18:19 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <385c8973-7841-4972-92ba-5c5af4812e8c@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftkx9lll.fsf@gmail.com>

> > Isn't "installing" essentially downloading, compiling,
> > and setting up autoloads?  It doesn't imply loading,
> > AFAIK.

N> package-load-list controls the "setting up autoloads" (and load-path)
N> part.

OK.

S> the overwhelmingly common use case is that a user
S> only installs a package that he/she wants to use.

OK.  I'll take your word for it.  But it's not what I
expected.

I'm no expert on package.el or how most people use it.
It seemed odd to me that just installing should, by
default, also automatically load everything installed.
But I guess that's a misunderstanding on my part.

I use `load-path' and `require', and I've put tons of
stuff in my `load-path' that I rarely, if ever, load.
I imagined that many package users would similarly
install stuff they don't want to load systematically.





      reply	other threads:[~2019-09-16  1:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-19 16:26 bug#17530: 24.4.50; `package-load-list': incorrect defcustom type Drew Adams
2014-05-19 16:33 ` Drew Adams
2019-09-15  0:29 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-15 14:00   ` Drew Adams
2019-09-15 15:37     ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-15 21:27       ` Drew Adams
2019-09-15 21:39         ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-15 22:05           ` Drew Adams
2019-09-15 22:27             ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-15 23:38             ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-16  1:18               ` Drew Adams [this message]

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