Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
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> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-06/msg00202.html

I didn't see that.  Doing provide when a feature is not yet ready for
use would seem fairly dubious though, in normal circumstances.

> I'll mention something about this in the doc of eval-after-load.

provide could cross-reference eval-after-load, if that helped remind to
take care with what point it's called, perhaps per below.